← Polynices has finished his hunt today. He's going back to the house where my father and mother are waiting for him. Eteocles too. He has a right to rest. 🔊✎
← I've got my feet on the ground, my hands in my pockets, and since I happen to be king, I'm not as ambitious as your father, I just want to make the world a bit less crazy, if I can do that. It's not exactly an adventure, it's just a job. And like all jobs, it's not always fun. 🔊✎
← That's right, go on, go on, just like your father! 🔊✎
← You're crazy, father. Let go of me. 🔊✎
← But father, you see they're taking her away! Father, don't let those men take her away! 🔊✎
← Father, the crowd is nothing. You are the master. 🔊✎
← Father, I'm your son, you can't tell me to let them take her. 🔊✎
← Father, it's not true! It's not you, it's not today! We're not both of us in front of that wall where you can only say yes. You are still strong, like you were when I was little. 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← We're all alone, Haemon. The world is empty. And you've looked up to me too long. Look straight at me, this is what it means to be a man, to look your father straight in the face one day. 🔊✎