← Now the city has been saved, the two brothers who became enemies are dead, and King Creon has ordered that Eteocles, the good brother, will be buried with full honours, while Polynices, the good-for-nothing traitor, will be left without tomb or ceremony to be the prey of the crows and the jackals. 🔊✎
← Of course. Everyone has their part to play. He has to put us to death, and we have to bury our brother. 🔊✎
← I couldn't sleep. I was afraid you'd go out and try and bury him even though it's day. 🔊✎
← Why did you attempt to bury your brother? 🔊✎
← If you aren't buried, you wander through eternity without ever finding rest. 🔊✎
← If I had been a servant doing the dishes when I heard the edict being read, I would have wiped my greasy hands and I would have gone out in my apron to bury my brother. 🔊✎
← I have to bury my brother. Those men uncovered him again. 🔊✎
← You think of course I should bury your brother, just for hygienic reasons if nothing else. But to make the animals I govern understand, the whole town has to stink of Polynices' decaying carcass for a month. 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎