Antigone Comic Strip Project
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- Prologue; Parados
- "I will bury him; and if I must die, I say that this crime is holy" (Antigone 55).
- Scene 1; Ode 1
- "The body was just mounded over with with light dust; but as if they'd covered it just enough for the ghost's peace" (Antigone 84-86).
- "Your fingers of speech may entertain you now; but unless you bring me the man, you will get little profit from them in the end" (Antigone 138-140).
- Scene 2; Ode 2
- "I do. I deny nothing" (Antigone 52).
- Scene 3; Ode 3
- "You consider it right for a man of my years and experience to go to school to a boy?" (Antigone 95-96).
- "It is not if I am wrong. But if I am young and right, what does my age matter?" (Antigone 97-98).
- King Creon created a law that forbade anyone from burying Polynices and that if he was burried, the culprit would be sentenced to death. Antigone told her sister that, even though it's illegal, Antigone has a duty to the gods and to her brother and that she's decided to bury Polynices anyway.
- Scene 4; Ode 4
- The Sentry visited Creon to break the news that someone had buried Polynices against his wishes. The Sentry swore that he, nor the other guards did it or knew who did it. Creon became angry and told the Sentry to bring him the person responsible for the crime.
- Scene 5
- "This is your crime:And the Furies and the dark gods of hellAre swift with terrible punishment for you" (Antigone 76-78).
- The Sentry brought Antigone to Creon and when Creon confronted her about the crime, she admitted openly to burying Polynices. She said that she is unashamed. Creon sentenced her to death.
- Exodos Part 1
- “What have you done, child? Speak to me.What are you thinking that makes your eyes so strange?O my son, my son, I come to you on my knees!” (Antigone 65-67).
- Heamon approached his father about Antigone's sentence and tried to peacefully convince him not to kill her. Creaon didn't want to be told what to do and the two of them got into a big argument.
- Exodos Part 2
- "There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, and proud men in old age learn to be wise" (Antigone 139-142).
- The guards, the Chorus and the Choragus take Antigone to her cave where she is to die of starvation. On the way to her death, Antigone begins to question her decisions and fear death. She asks for pity. She knows what she did was right and that she does not deserve this punishment. The Choragus knows it as well, but will not defy the king.
- "Pity me. Turning back at the night’s edge to sayGood-bye to the sun that shines for me no longer;Now sleepy Death" (Antigone 5-8).
- Creon is visited by the blind prophet Teiresias. Teiresias explains to Creon that the gods are angered that Polynices has been left without a burial. Teiresias tells Creon that it will not be long before he too suffers for the crime against the gods. Creon is afraid of his outcome and what Teiresias said so he decides to give Polynices a proper burial and free Antigone.
- "It is worseTo risk everything for stubborn pride" (Antigone 93-94).
- A messenger comes to the castle and informs Queen Eurydice that both Haemon and Antigone are dead. He explains that him and Creon had gone to properly bury Polynices when they heard Antigone's voice weeping. They went to the cave to see that Antigone had hung herself and Heamon on his knees with his sword, he tried to attack Creon but missed and stabbed himself.
- Creon later learns that his wife Eurydice also killed herself upon learning that her son and his love had died. Creon is devastated. He realizes all he has done and that he is the cause of the death of his family. he begs for death to come quickly for him. The messenger explains the moral of the story.
- "Let it come;Let death come quickly and be kind to me.I would not ever see the sun again" (Antigone 28-29).
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