brother

You should, Antigone. It's horrible of course, and I feel so sorry for my brother too, but I sort of understand our uncle. 🔊

Polynices is dead and he didn't love you. He was always a stranger to us, a bad brother. 🔊

What were you doing next to the body of your brother? You know I have forbidden anyone to approach it. 🔊

Why did you attempt to bury your brother? 🔊

He was my brother. 🔊

That is not true. If you had been a servant, you would have known very well that you would die, and you would have stayed at home and cried for your brother there. 🔊

So not for the others, and not for your brother? For who then? 🔊

Well I don't have to do things if I don't want to! Perhaps you didn't want to refuse my brother a tomb either? Go on, say you didn't want to? 🔊

The story of Eteocles and Polynices, your brothers. You think you know it, but you don't. No one in Thebes knows it except me. But I think, this morning, that you also have the right to find out. 🔊

Poor Antigone, with her nightclub flower! Do you know what your brother was like? 🔊

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