← Antigone! Please, I'm begging you! It's alright for men to believe in ideas and die for them. You're a girl. 🔊✎
← Take these men to one side, kid. And they are not to talk to anyone until I come back to see them. 🔊✎
← I suppose you think it's funny all the same, to be able to disrespect a king who's listening to you, a man who has the power to do anything and I promise you has seen plenty of other people killed, some of them just as cute as you, and who's still taking all this trouble to try and stop you from dying? 🔊✎
← You're too sensitive to make a good tyrant, that's what it's about. But you're going to have to kill me soon all the same, you know you will, and that's what frightens you. A man who's frightened is so ugly. 🔊✎
← And then I'm sure you admired their first cigarettes, their first long trousers; and then they started going out at night, and they smelled like men, and they no longer looked at you at all. 🔊✎
← But father, you see they're taking her away! Father, don't let those men take her away! 🔊✎
← All the care you took of me, all your pride, all those books full of heroes, that was to get here? To be a man, like you say, and happy to be alive? 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← And Creon is right, it's horrible, now, next to this man, I don't know anymore why I am dying. I'm scared... 🔊✎