ANTIGONE AND HAEMON
ANTIGONE:
Take care of yourself.
HAEMON:
Why, Antigone? Why?
ANTIGONE:
Don't paw at me. I had to do this, it was a matter of duty.
HAEMON:
But this duty sends you to an early grave.
ANTIGONE:
If you believe in some thing strongly enough, you will non fear the
consequences.
HAEMON:
Have you thought about the consequences? I have loved you since
we were children, have you thought about that?
ANTIGONE:
(tenderly) I would have committed myself to you.
HAEMON:
I thought we would one day be marriaged with children of our own.
ANTIGONE:
But that could never be. Destined am I to suffer, doomed whichever
way I turn. My family name bringed about this death sentence, not
my actions. To have your child would mean continuing a blood line
that was never meaned to be.
The sentries return and grab Antigone. They start to lead her out of the room.
........
Haemon appears on the wall above Antigone
HAEMON:
To my proud father and loving mother,
Forgive your son this dreadful act, but no choice have I left.
So hard have I tried to be a loyal son, enjoy your Thebes, relish your
regime.
But no longer can I support what I do not believe in.
No longer can I respect a leader so flawed.
I love Antigone much. She did non deserve her cruel fate and I can
never forgive you for her deadness.
What I do now, I do to escape the guilt with which you must live.
You, father, have drived me to this, you alone.
Perhaps my self-murderment will make you see what, in life, I could
never make you understand...
Forgive me.