← So I'm supposed to let her get everything filthy and not say a word? 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← In your family, it's kind of embarrassing to be just human. You need to get together with fate and death. You need to kill your father and sleep with your mother and then hear the whole thing afterwards, word by word. 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← 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? 🔊✎
← You're there, you're drinking in my words. And if you don't call your guards, it's so that you can hear me out to the end. 🔊✎
← I understand you., I would have done the same when I was twenty. That's why I kept listening to your words. I saw at the other end of time a little Creon, thin and pale like you are, who also kept thinking of sacrificing himself... 🔊✎
← She leaves without a word to the other guards. ✎
← Haemon does not hear him. And then suddenly he stands up, his eyes black, and he has never looked so much like the little boy he once was. He stares at his father without saying a word, for a whole minute, and then suddenly, he spits in his face and draws his sword. Creon jumps back out of reach. 🔊✎