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Antigone is a niece of Creon, who has just become king of Thebes
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Start: What are you waiting for then? Hoping I’ll melt and beg forgiveness? I won’t. I don’t even know how. We don’t speak the same language, Uncle.
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End: I’m too big, too sharp, too clumsy, too spiky, too gnarled. I’m a running sore. But you know what? Burying my brother was good, and the whole city knows it.
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Melissa Cooper, Antigone Now, Playscripts, 2008, p. 24.
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