He wants not to execute antigone but cannot help ordering her death. But it may well be that a food convicts me of folly antigone to creonantigone thinks that creon is the real fool here not herself because he s going against the laws of the gods. It may be that it is a fool who accuses me of folly.Creon not that the base should fare as do the brave. And if my present actions are foolish in your sight, But if I had endured that my mother's son should in death lie an unburied corpse, that would have grieved me. So for me to meet this doom is a grief of no account. When anyone lives as I do, surrounded by evils, how can he not carry off gain by dying? But if I am to die before my time, I count that a gain. Not for fear of any man's pride was I about to owe a penalty to the gods for breaking these.ĭie I must, that I knew well （how could I not?）. For their life is not of today or yesterday, but for all time, and no man knows when they were first put forth.
Nor did I think that your decrees were of such force, that a mortal could override the unwrittenĪnd unfailing statutes given us by the gods.
Yes, since it was not Zeus that published me that edict, and since not of that kind are the laws which Justice who dwells with the gods below established among men. CreonĪnd even so you dared overstep that law? Antigone
You, however, tell me-not at length, but briefly-did you know that an edict had forbidden this? Antigone You can take yourself wherever you please,įree and clear of a heavy charge. You, you with your face bent to the ground, do you admit, or deny that you did this? Antigone
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