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"He did not expose it to me, dear; not even the surface of the mighty deep." Laetitia knitted her brows. "No," said Clara, "not a coquette: she is not a coquette, I assure you." With a laugh, Laetitia replied: "You have still the 'dreadful power' you made me feel that day." "I wish I could use it to good purpose!" "He did not speak?" "Of Switzerland, Tyrol, the Iliad, Antigone." "That was all?"
For his own part, he refused to take part in the skirmish. While the civilized nations were cutting each other's throats he was fain to repeat the device of Antigone: "I am made for love, and not for hate." For love and for understanding, which is another form of love. His fondness for Christophe was enough to make his duty plain to him.
For instance, in the Antigone of Sophocles, during the time that one of the chorus is reciting a few verses, the heroic sister has found out the body of her beloved brother, and, in violation of the command of Creon, bestowed on it the rites of sepulture.
"I will scratch his eyes out?" cried Goechhausen, "and then the Countess Werther can play Antigone, and lead him around as Oedipus. Why shut your eyes, Einsiedel? I do not scratch quite yet." "I was not thinking of that," said the baron, astonished. "You never think that every one knows; but did you not do it so soon as you understood the Countess Werther should lead blind Oedipus as Antigone?"
An action like the action of the Antigone of Sophocles, which turns upon the conflict between the heroine's duty to her brother's corpse and that to the laws of her country, is no longer one in which it is possible that we should feel a deep interest.
The following is the lamentation of Antigone over OEdipus, when death has at last relieved him from his sufferings: "Alas! I only wished I might have died With my poor father; wherefore should I ask For longer life? O, I was fond of misery with him; E'en what was most unlovely grew beloved When he was with me.
Rather might she be compared to the Greek type of noble woman, to Antigone, to Alcestis. With the Japanese woman, as formed by the ancient training, each act of life was an act of faith: her existence was a religion, her home a temple, her every word and thought ordered by the law of the cult of the dead.... This wonderful type is not extinct though surely doomed to disappear.
We have seen how dim and doubtful was the belief that upbore the grave and beautiful Antigone in her self-sacrifice; but there have been women who have been as brave and devoted in their care of the mortal remains of their friends not from the heathen fancy that the weal of the dead depended on such rites, but from their earnest love, and with a fuller trust beyond.
The greatest masterpiece of dramatic literature whether it be Romeo and Juliet, Antigone, La Malade Imaginaire or The Doll's House becomes nonsense if the thought divisions indicated by the verbal phrases are not carefully determined and expressed. "Great actors spend hours and hours seeking for the best method of expressing the author's meaning.
I ended by giving it a soul to understand and answer me. I talked to it; I questioned. I sometimes said, "Who art thou?" Now I imagined a pale youth enamored with glory, and called him my brother. Then it was a young and lovely Antigone, laboring to sustain her old father, and I called her my sister, and by a sweeter name too.
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