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She is going to knit through the whole tragedy until her turn comes to get up and die. 🔊

For the moment, until a new and duly appointed king of Thebes tells them to arrest him in his turn, they are Creon's instruments of justice. 🔊

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. 🔊

Not beautiful like us, but in another way. You know it's you that makes the little punks turn their heads when you walk by them; and the girls watch you and suddenly they don't have a thing to say, they just stare until you've gone round the corner. 🔊

turns her head away a little and then adds in a hard voice.

(And she adds, turning away and in a hard voice.)

In a drama, you fight back because you hope to escape. It's vulgar, you just want to turn a profit. Tragedy is for free. 🔊

First of all, I'm not tender-hearted but I'm kind of fussy: I like things to be clean and neat. You think this doesn't disgust me as much as you, this piece of stinking meat we've left out in the sun? In the evening, when we get the sea breeze, you can smell it even in the palace. It turns my stomach. But all the same, I don't close the window. 🔊

There! It's all over for Antigone. Now, Creon's turn approaches. It has to come to all of them in the end. 🔊

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