When my power fails I have but to desist.
ISMENE.
Where we must fail, not to attempt is wise.
ANTIGONE.
Such talk will make thee hateful unto me,
And by the dead man righteously abhorred.
Then leave me with my folly to endure
This dreadful penalty. Come what come may,
Nothing will rob me of a noble death.
ISMENE.
Art thou resolved? Go, then, and be assured
That though misguided thou art well beloved.
* * * * *
SISTERLY LOVE DEFIES THE LAW.
Antigone is caught by the guard paying funeral rites to the corpse of
Polynices, and is brought before Creon.