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Anne Carson, introduction to Antigone

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This is soooooooo fuckin funny that it keeps happening

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CHORUS: So, here we are. These people are going to perform for you the story of Antigone. Antigone is the little one sitting over there, saying nothing, staring intently at nothing. She's thinking. She's thinking that she is about to become Antigone, that she's about to emerge from the dark, skinny, brooding girl that no one in her family ever took seriously and stand up alone to face the world, to face Creon, her uncle, who is the king. She's thinking that she's going to die, that she's young, and that she too would've wanted very much to live. But there's nothing she can do. Her name is Antigone, and she will have to play her part through to the end.

— Antigone, Jean Anouilh (tr. Zander Teller)

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Hate to Feel - Alice In Chains / Shameless / Girls / Rocky Balboa / Antigone (Sophocles / trans. Anne Carson) / I AM ANGRY BECAUSE OF MY FATHER - Halsey / Rupi Kaur / Succession / When Doves Cry - Prince / The Spectacular Now / The House / Sharp Objects / Girls / Mayans MC / Succession x / The Lion In Winter - James Goldman

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“I go

I am the last one left in a line of kings

I was caught

in an act of perfect piety.”

-Antigonick (Sophocles, Trans. Anne Carson)

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writing a paper on antigone and had to draw her or i’d go insane. love the fascination different translators have with Antigone’s eulogy for herself and the role of fate in the play

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« I'm an awful coward, Antigone. »

« So am I. But what has that to do with it? »

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on tragedy, After Sophocles & Anne Carson, Dante Émile

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The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Antigone - Jean Anhouilh (Tr. Lewis Galantière) | Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Dante Émile, On Tragedy // Grouper, Headache

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i love how absolutely none of these tragedies give a fuck about ismene. she truly is just a figment of antigone's imagination. she is born the moment antigone makes her choice as a desperate last-ditch attempt from the narrative to try to save antigone while at the same time cementing her death resolution for good. her purely situational and instrumental value are shrouded in failure from the very moment she steps on the scene and it compels me

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Antigonick, Anne Carson

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“YOU TWO WERE BEST FRIENDS” –– MY MOTHER

“ICONIC CORPSE: Warrior Women Scorned!” Ask a Mortician // “A Brother Named Gethsemane” Natalie Diaz // “Little Women” Louisa May Alcott // my own contact list // “Arcane: League of Legends” // “Antigone” Sophocles // “The Elektra Complex” @filmnoirsbian // “Los Reyes” Julio Cortázar // post by @fluentisonus // “Nanette” Hannah Gadsby // “Blues for Vincent” Ossip Zadkine // “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” The Hollies

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[ID: 2 snippets from plays. The first is dialogue between Agamemnon and Klytemnestra. Agamemnon says, “Klytemnestra, I need you to listen — Klytemnestra.” Klytemnestra says, “She was a part of my body.” Agamemnon says, “I don’t want to do it.” Klytemnestra replies, “Then don’t do it.” The second is dialogue between Creon and Chorus. Creon says, “The task is there to be done. They say it’s dirty work. But if I didn’t do it, who would?“ Chorus replies, “Why must dirty work be done? … And now you are alone, Creon.” This is followed by the stage direction, “(He turns and faces away from Creon.)” End ID.]

Oresteia - Robert Icke | Antigone - Jean Anouilh, Tr. Lewis Galantière

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Antigone + siblings

Antigone - Sophocles (trans. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald) // Homefire - Kamila Shamsie // "A Brother Named Gethsemane" - Natalie Diaz // Antigonick - Anne Carson // "Lay Me Down" - the Oh Hellos // Antigone - Jean Anouilh // "song of the insensible" - Andrew Kozma // Antigonick - Anne Carson

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antigonick - sophocles, tr. anne carson.

[TEXT: “Ismene: I want to row the boat with you Antigone: save yourself Ismene: I’ll be so lonely]