← The old lady who's knitting next to the nurse who raised the two young girls is Eurydice, Creon's wife. 🔊✎
← Thank you. Okay. First, what happened yesterday. You asked me just now why I turned up with Ismene's gown, with that perfume and lipstick. 🔊✎
← Forget him, Antigone, the way he forgot us. Let his ghost wander for ever without a grave, because that's what Creon's law says. 🔊✎
← And not a word. You are all guilty of gross negligence, you will be punished whatever happens, but if you talk, if people start saying in town that someone covered up Polynices's body, then all three of you are dead. 🔊✎
← Death is there, and treason and despair, all ready to use, and the outbursts, and the storms, and the silences, all the silences: the silence when the headsman raises his axe at the end, the silence at the beginning when the two lovers are naked in front of each other for the first time in the dark bedroom, without daring to move, the silence when the crowd's screams burst out around the conqueror and it's like a film where the sound has been cut, all those open mouths with nothing coming out, all that commotion which is just a picture, and the conqueror, who has already been conquered, alone in the middle of his silence... 🔊✎
← Do you really believe in this burial according to the rites? This idea that your brother's spirit will be condemned to wander forever if you don't throw a bit of dirt on the corpse and say the right words? 🔊✎
← I had one of the bodies, the less damaged one, collected for my hero's funeral, and I told them to leave the other one where it was. I don't even know which was which. And I promise you, I really don't care. 🔊✎
← There! It's all over for Antigone. Now, Creon's turn approaches. It has to come to all of them in the end. 🔊✎