Antigone: Big Concepts
Family
Family
Quotes
1: "Antigone:
... Creon buried our brother Eteoclês
With military honors, gave him a soldier's funeral,
And it was right that he should; but Polyneicês,
They fought as bravely and died as miserably,--..." (Prologue).
Quote 2:
"Antigone:
You must decide whether you will help me or not.
Ismene:
I do not understand you. Help you in what?
Antigone:
Ismene, I am going to bury him. Will you come?
Ismene:
Bury him! You have just said the new law forbids it.
Antigone:
He is my brother. And he is your brother, too.
Ismene:
But think of the danger! Think what Creon will do!
Antigone:
Creon is not enough to stand in my way." (Prologue).
Quote 3:
"Ismene:
Do you refuse me, Antigone? I want to die with you: I too have a duty that I must discharge to the dead.
Antigone:
You shall not lessen my death by sharing it" (Scene 2).
Quote 4:
'Creon:
... My own blind heart has brought me
From darkness to final darkness. Here you see
The father murdering, the murdered son---
And all my civic wisdom!
Haimon my son, so young, so young to die,
I was the fool, not you; and you died for me" (Scene 5, Exodus).
Scene 5:
'Creon:
Lead me away. I have been rash and foolish.
I have killed my son and my wife.
I look for comfort; my comfort lies here dead.
Whatever my hands have touched has come to nothing" (Scene 5, Exodus).