Antigone is the headstrong niece of the powerful Creon, the King of
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Start: What kind of happiness do you foresee for me? Paint me the picture of your happy Antigone. What are the unimportant little sins that I shall have to commit before I am allowed to sink my teeth into life and tear happiness from it!
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End: It’s you who are the ugly ones, even the handsomest of you–with that ugly glint in the corner of your eyes, that ugly crease at the corner of your mouths. Creon, you spoke the word a moment ago: the kitchen of politics. You look it and you smell of it.
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1946, pp. 41-43.
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