Antigone themes

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  • Antigone themes
    • Women
      • Creon's misogyny
        • 'No woman is going to lord over me'
        • 'From now on they'll act like women. Tie them up, no more running loose'.
        • 'Never lose you sense of judgement over a woman'
        • 'A worthless woman in your house, a misery in your bed'.
        • 'Never be rated inferior to a woman. Never.'
      • Marriage
        • Chorus -'Does he come in tears for this doomed bride, Antigone- bitter at being cheated of their marriage?'
        • Antigone - 'Oh tomb, my bridal bed'.
          • 'No part in the bridal-song, the bridal-bed, denied all joy of marriage, raising children.'
        • Messenger - 'Wailing for his bride...the bed of his marriage blighted by misfortune.'
          • 'He has won his bride at last, poor boy, not here but in the houses of the dead.'
    • Justice
      • Burial
        • Antigone - 'Hasn't Creon graced one with all the rights, disgraced the other?'
          • 'Eteocles, they say has been given full military honours'
            • 'The body of Polynices... he's to be left unwept, unburied.'
        • Creon - 'No he must be left unburied, his corpse carrion for birds and dogs to tear'.
          • 'Never at my hands will the traitor be honoured above the patriot'
          • 'Never, not even in fear of such defilement will I tolerate his burial, that traitor.'
      • Divine law
        • Antigone - 'Do as you like, dishonour the laws the gods hold in honour'
          • 'Nor did I think your edict had such force that you, a mere mortal, could override the gods.'
          • 'What law of the mighty gods have I transgressed?'
        • Haemon - 'Protect your rights? When you trample down the honours of the gods?'
          • 'I see my father offending justice'
        • Tiresias - ''Then you've robbed the gods below the earth keeping a dead body here in the bright air.'

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