... mock me! Why in the name of all my father's Gods, why can't you wait will I am gone-must you abuse me to my face?" She also rather blatantly, blames her entire family for her misfortune. She refers to the incest between her parents as "doomstruck" and calls herself "cursed" for being their "wretched child." She accuses her brother-Polynices as well for ruining her life and destroying her marriage, as is evident from the following lines-"Oh dear brother, doomed in your marriage-your marriage murders mine, your dying drags me down to earth alive." She thus appears at this point to be a broken woman, pining for her lost marriage and disgusted at the death meted out for her, before her time. But Antigone, doesn't stop at merely this complaining, condemning and cursing which are already somewhat out of character but she also rather cowardly, tries to alleviate the extent of ...

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