← Everyone was there. The schoolkids had raided their piggy-banks to buy wreaths. Old men, pretending they were moved, were telling exaggerated stories in trembling voices about the good brother, the son of Oedipus, the prince royal. I gave a speech too. 🔊✎
← But Haemon looks at him with his child's eyes, heavy with contempt, and Creon cannot avoid his gaze that cuts him like a knife. Haemon stares at the old man trembling at the other end of the cavern and then, without saying anything, he plunges the sword into his stomach and stretches himself out beside Antigone, kissing her in the middle of a huge pool of blood. 🔊✎