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Excerpt from The Antigone of Sophocles: With Notes, for the Use of Colleges in the United States
Virgin's death, divine law moves onward with traces of a more dreadful devastation, and triumphs at the close.
The character of Antigone is that Of one who has laid aside all ordinary feelings, and is absorbed by the sole purpose of burying her brother. Her purpose, through indignation at the edict Of Creon, has gained such strength, that she rejects her sister's dissuasives with harshness, treats Creon with scorn, and seems to have forgotten her espousals to Haemon. In this way, the poet makes her stand quite alone, in the sublime attitude Of a secluded virgin, enabled, by the power of affection, to Oppose the whole power of law and punishment. Whatever of harsh or masculine appears in her conduct is owing to her highly excited feelings; for her native disposition was conceived of as exquisitely tender and feminine, if we may judge from the subdued tone of her last song just before her death, and from that beautiful line.
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