Antigone StoryBoard
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- Prologue/ Parados
- Antigone.Ismene, I am going to bury him. Will you come? (Prologue line 31)
- Ismene. Bury him! You have just said the new law forbids it. (Prologue line 32)
- Scene 1/ Ode 1
- Choragus. If that is your will, Creon son of Menoeceus,You have the right to enforce it: we are yours.(Scene 1, lines 48-49)
- Creon.Polyneices, I say, is to have noburial: no man is to touch him or say the least prayer for him;he shall lie on the plain, unburied; and the birds and thescavenging dogs can do with him whatever they like.(Scene 1, lines 39-42)
- Scene 1/ Ode 1
- Creon.I swear by God and by the throne of God,The man who has done this thing shall pay for it!(Scene 1, lines 121-122)
- Sentry.The body, just mounded over with light dust: you see?Not buried really, but as if they’d covered itJust enough for the ghost’s peace. And no signOf dogs or any wild animal that had been there. (Scene 1, lines 84-87).
- Scene 2/ Ode 2
- Creon. (to guards) You, there, take them away and guard them well:For they are but women, and even brave men runWhen they see Death coming. (Scene 2, lines 164-166)
- Creon.And you, Antigone,You with your head hanging—do you confess this thing? (Scene 2, lines 50-51)
- Antigone. I do. I deny nothing. (Scene 2, lines 52).
- Scene 3/ Ode 3
- Haemon. You are not in a position to know everythingThat people say or do, or what they feel:Your temper terrifies them—everyoneWill tell you only what you like to hear. (Scene 3, lines 57-60)
- Haemon. I have heard themMuttering and whispering in the dark about this girl.They say no woman has ever, so unreasonably,Died so shameful a death for a generous act:(Scene 3, lines 61-64)
- Scene 3/ Ode 3
- Creon (somberly). I will carry her far away,Out there in the wilderness, and lock herLiving in a vault of stone. She shall have food,As the custom is, to absolve the state of her death. (Scene 3, lines 141-144)
- Choragus. Gone, gone.Creon, a young man in a rage is dangerous! (Scene 3, lines 135-136)
- Scene 4/ Ode 4
- Antigone. O tomb, vaulted bride-bed in eternal rock,Soon I shall be with my own againWhere Persephone welcomes the thin ghosts underground:And I shall see my father again, and you, Mother,And dearest Polyneices— (Scene 4, lines 58-62)
- Choragus. O passionate heart,Unyielding, tormented still by the same winds! (Scene 4, lines 71-71).
- Scene 5/Paean/Exodus
- Creon. I will go.—Bring axes, servants:Come with me to the tomb. I buried her; IWill set her free.Oh quickly!My mind misgives—The laws of the gods are mighty, and a man must serve themTo the last day of his life! (Scene 4, lines 104-109)
- Teiresias. Then take this, and take it to heart!The time is not far off when you shall pay backCorpse for corpse, flesh of your own flesh. (Scene 4, lines 70-72)
- Scene 5/Paean/Exodus
- Messenger. And now he lies dead with the dead, and she is hisAt last, his bride in the houses of the dead. (Exodus lines 75-76)
- Messenger. I went with CreonTo the outer plain where Polyneices was lying,No friend to pity him, his body shredded by dogs. (Exodus, lines 37-39)
- Scene 5/Paean/Exodus
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