DEATH

**Death**

 * =====[[image:hades.png width="355" height="529" align="right" caption="Hades"]]“There you have it; soon you will show yourself as noble both in your nature and your birth, or yourself as base, although of noble parents.” (42-5)=====


 * =====“It will be good to die, so doing, I shall lie by his side.” (83-84)=====


 * =====“But he that is loyal to the state in death, in life alike, shall have my honour.” (238-9)=====


 * =====“Only against death can he call on no means of escape; but escape from hopeless diseases he has found in the depths of his mind.” (396-9)=====


 * =====“How can such as I, that live among such troubles, not find a profit in death?” (507-9)=====


 * =====“But if I dared to leave the dead man, my mother’s son, dead and unburied, that would have been real pain.” (510-12)=====


 * =====“Sister, do not dishonour me, denying me a common death with you, a common honouring of the dead man.” (598-600)=====

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 * =====“Not even to share your death!” (609)=====


 * =====“I set out on my last road of all, looking for the last time on this light of this sun - never again. I am alive but Hades who gives sleep to everyone is leading me to the shores of Acheron, though I have known nothing of marriage songs, nor the chant the brings the bride to bed. My husband is to be the Lord of Death.” (871-7)=====


 * =====“Life was your choice, and death was mine.” (610)=====


 * “I make my way to my prison sealed like a tomb.” (904)


 * =====Brother, it was a luckless marriage you made, and dying killed my life.” (922-3)=====


 * =====“Tomb, bridal chamber, prison forever dug in rock, it is to you I am going to join my people, that great number that have died, whom in their death Persephone received.” (945-8)=====



.....Literary Features
 * Character - different people’s view on death
 * Imagery - marriage to death, Acheron leading Antigone slowly to her death, marriage songs, husband “to be the Lord of Death”
 * Foreshadow / Plot - seeks death, fear death, avoids death; foreshadows the death of everybody
 * Contrast / Juxtaposition - marriage and death, bridal bed and death bed
 * Theme - inevitability of death, yet different people have different approach