sophocles - antigone sentence starters !!
saw that not many people write up historical/dramatical starters so i’m filling in the void. feel free to edit for pronouns/tense etc. tw/cw for violence, death, incest (due to the source)
the doom reserved for enemies marches on the ones we love the most
i know nothing more, whether our luck’s improved or ruin’s still to come
what’s the matter? trouble, clearly… you sound so dark, so grim
even if i die in the act, that death will be a glory
wild, irrational as you are ___, you are truly dear to the ones who love you
i could never stand by silent, watching destruction march against our city
here is a dark sign from the gods - what to make of this?
believe me, the stiffest stubborn wills fall the hardest
you, aren’t you ashamed to differ so from them?
death longs for the same rites for all
what do i care for life, cut off from you?
save yourself. i don’t grudge you your survival
that’s how you ought to feel within your heart, subordinate to _’s will in every way
protect your rights? when you trample down the honours of the gods?
i fill with tears, i cannot hold them back
but she was a god, born of gods, we are only mortals born to die
i have no home on earth and none below
your dying drags me down to death alive!
your own blind will, your passion has destroyed you
see what i suffer now at the hands of what breed of men
i’ve never wavered from your advice before
you will learn when you listen to the warnings of my craft
the gods are deaf to our prayers, they spurn the offerings in our hands
once the wrong is done, a man can turn his back on folly, misfortune too
lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? that’s dreadful
he’s as good as dead, i tell you, a living corpse
oh great seer, you saw it all, you brought your word to birth!
tell me the news, again, whatever it is… sorrow and i are hardly strangers.
for mortal men there is no escape from the doom we must endure
whatever i touch goes wrong - once more a crushing fate’s come down upon my head!
