Antigone

A young woman defies the king to bury her brother, and pays for obeying a higher law.

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▸AntigoneANTIGONE and ISMENE before the Palace gates.

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ANTIGONE

Antigone · Sophocles

Yea, for these laws were not ordained of Zeus, and she who sits enthroned with gods below, Justice, enacted not these human laws. Nor did I deem that thou, a mortal man, could'st by a breath annul and override the immutable unwritten laws of Heaven. They were not born today nor yesterday; they die not; and none knoweth whence they sprang.

1:12DramaticIntermediate

Writer	Sophocles
Written	c. 441 BC
Pages	55
Reading time	~1.5 hrs
Monologues	1 indexed
Themes	conscience, law, family, defiance
Principals	Antigone, Creon, Ismene, Haemon

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