← Antigone! Please, I'm begging you! It's alright for men to believe in ideas and die for them. You're a girl. 🔊✎
← You see how I'm begging you, swear it, please Haemon... It's the last stupid thing I'll ever ask you to do. 🔊✎
← Please, Haemon. I'm begging you... 🔊✎
← Those words that condemn you are so exciting, aren't they? You just lap them up when your name is Oedipus or Antigone. And then it's so simple to poke your eyes out and go out begging on the roads with your children. 🔊✎
← Why? So that I'll cry, so that I'll beg for mercy, so that I'll swear anything you want, and then try again as soon as the pain has gone? 🔊✎
← Oh, I'm begging you, father, I want to be able to look up to you, I still want to look up to you! I'm too alone and the world is too empty if I can't look up to you anymore. 🔊✎
← Antigone is at the far end of the tomb. She has hanged herself with her belt of blue and green and red cords, which looks like a child's necklace on her, and Haemon, kneeling, holds her in his arms and groans, his face buried in her gown. They move away another block and Creon can finally enter. You see his white hair in the shadows in the depths of the cave. He tries to raise up Haemon, he begs him. 🔊✎