antigone

• The chorus is the voice of the people, representing their opinions.
• Creon represents the power of authority and the importance of following laws and rules.
• Anigone's actions are motivated by her love for Polyneices and her desire to honor his memory.
• "death will be a glory. i will lie with the one i love and loved by him"-
• 'No man shall say i betrayed a brother"
• " i have no love for a friend who loves in words alone"
• "we only have a little time to pause the living. but all eternity to love the dead"
• "the worst that can befall is but to die an honourable death".
• “When misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit.”
• “I contemn the man who sets his friend Before his country.”
• “No youths have sung the marriage song for me, My bridal bed No maids have strewn with flowers from the lea, ‘Tis Death I wed.”
• “For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, Is full of misery.”
• “Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death.”
• “A State for one man is no State at all.”
• “More hateful still the miscreant who seeks When caught, to make a virtue of a crime.”
• “For ‘tis most sweet to ‘scape oneself scot-free, And yet to bring disaster to a friend Is grievous.”
• “Of evils current upon earth The worst is money. Money ‘tis that sacks Cities, and drives men forth from hearth and home; Warps and seduces native innocence, And breeds a habit of dishonesty.”
• “Strained silence, so I deem, Is no less ominous than excessive grief.”
• “No man shall say that I betrayed a brother.”
• “I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.”
• “Die then, and love the dead if thou must; No woman shall be the master while I live.”
• “God moves swiftly to cancel the folly of stubborn men.”
• “It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.”
• “Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.”
• “We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”