← Antigone, daughter of Oedipus ✎
← Before, in the time of Oedipus, when he was only the first gentleman of the court, he loved music, beautiful old volumes, looking slowly around the little bookshops of Thebes. 🔊✎
← But Oedipus and his sons are dead. 🔊✎
← It begins at the moment when the two sons of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polynices, who were supposed to take turns ruling Thebes one year at a time, fought each other to the death under the walls of the city, because Eteocles, the older one, had at the end of his first year of power refused to give up his place to his brother. 🔊✎
← Tell them to let go of me. I am the daughter of Oedipus, I am Antigone. I won't try to escape. 🔊✎
← The daughter of Oedipus, right! Those hookers they bring in at night, they always say you watch it, my boyfriend is a police inspector! 🔊✎
← Maybe you thought that you were the daughter of Oedipus, the daughter of the pride of Oedipus, and that was enough to put you above the law. 🔊✎
← The pride of Oedipus. You are the pride of Oedipus. Yes, now that I can see it deep in your eyes, I believe 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. 🔊✎
← So listen. Yes, you are Antigone, yes, you are the daughter of Oedipus, but you are twenty years old, and not very long ago this would have been sorted out with a couple of smacks and going to bed without your dinner. 🔊✎