Quotes from Antigone or relating to Antigone
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| "You can not mean bury him... against the order." | Ismene | Ismene, embodying the role of a good Greek woman. Does not wish to go against what is expected of her.
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| "Never a bride, never a mother..." | Antigone | Antigone, although going against her gender role, still values aspects of what is expected of a good Greek woman (marriage, children).
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| "Take them and keep them within - the proper place for women." | Creon | Women belonged in a dungeon, where they could not be seen or heard.
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| "Oh, there are other fields for him to plough." | Creon | Women were thought to be not as valuable as men and as expendable.
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| "Yet this is the worst plague Zeus has made and he has bound us to them with a fetter that cannot be broken. Because of this some have gone to Hades fighting for a woman." | Semonides | Wider Greek society (outside quote). Semonides speaks of women almost as a punishment for men.
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| "...speech shall be for men, for all but most of all for me; since mine is the authority in the house. She then seized with wonder, went back to her chamber..." | Homer | Wider Greek society (outside quote). Enforces gender roles, what is expected of a Greek woman (to not speak and to let the husband do the speaking).
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| "I do not think your edicts strong enough to overrule the unwritten, unalterable laws of God and heaven, you only being a man." | Antigone | Antigone breaking from her traditional role as a good Greek woman to obey what the gods have ordered.
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