Monologue

Chorus Monologue from Antigone

From Antigone by Sophocles

any · dark · 57 sec

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(Str.) If mortal prayers are heard in hell, Hear, Goddess dread, invisible! Monarch of the regions drear, Aidoneus, hear, O hear! By a gentle, tearless doom Speed this stranger to the gloom, Let him enter without pain The all-shrouding Stygian plain. Wrongfully in life oppressed, Be he now by Justice blessed. (Ant.) Queen infernal, and thou fell Watch-dog of the gates of hell, Who, as legends tell, dost glare, Gnarling in thy cavernous lair At all comers, let him go Scathless to the fields below. For thy master orders thus, The son of earth and Tartarus; In his den the monster keep, Giver of eternal sleep. (Enter MESSENGER)

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The Chorus invokes the deities of the underworld, pleading for a merciful passage for a wronged soul, reflecting on themes of justice and the inevitability of death.

any · sadness · death · justice · fate · isolation

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