← Now the city has been saved, the two brothers who became enemies are dead, and King Creon has ordered that Eteocles, the good brother, will be buried with full honours, while Polynices, the good-for-nothing traitor, will be left without tomb or ceremony to be the prey of the crows and the jackals. 🔊✎
← While the Prologue has been talking, the actors have left one by one. The Prologue leaves too. ✎
← The chorus disappears, while the guards push Antigone onto the stage. ✎
← It's horrible, and I can even admit it's stupid, it's disgustingly stupid, but all of Thebes needs that smell in its nostrils for a while. 🔊✎
← (He sits there dreaming for a while, his head in his hands, his elbows on his knees. We hear him murmur.) ✎
← What will it be, my happiness? What kind of happy woman is little Antigone going to become? What miserable things is she going to have to do, her as well, so that she can gnaw out her little morsel of happiness? Tell me, who's she going to lie to, who's she going to smile at, who's she going to sell herself to? Who's she going to let die while she looks the other way? 🔊✎
← Be quiet! If you could see how ugly you are while you're screaming all this. 🔊✎
← You needed to go there this morning, on your hands and knees, in the dark. You needed to scrape up the dirt with your fingernails while they were right next to you and then have them grab you like you were a common thief! 🔊✎