Essential Passage 1: Lines 42-49
ANTIGONE:
Will you share in the labor and the deed?ISMENE:
What is the venture? Where have your thoughts gone?ANTIGONE:
Will you lift the corpse with this very hand?ISMENE:
You want to bury him, although it's forbidden in the city! (45)ANTIGONE:
I'll bury my brother—your brother, too,
though you refuse! I'll not be found a traitor.ISMENE:
Madwoman, even when Creon forbids...
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