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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size="4">Greek Drama</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span style='font-family:
"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(I)<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>IT seems that on listening
to some Greek lines included in my talk the other day, many of you have
expressed a desire to hear a little more about Greek poetry. This then will be
my subject today.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I
am particularly reminded in this connection of a line from Sophocles, the
dramatist – like the Latin sentence I quoted on the last occasion. Sri
Aurobindo himself had read out this line to me more than once and given it an
extremely beautiful interpretation. It is the opening line of Sophocles' famous
play, <i>Antigone, </i>which happened to be the second book I studied while
learning Greek. The first was Euripides' <i>Medea, </i>which is <i>Media </i>in
Greek – note here the play on long vowels to which I have referred in my last
talk.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This
is how Sophocles begins his play with the following words put in the mouth of
Antigone:<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>O</i> <i>koinon autadelphon Ismenes <span class=GramE>kara</span>.<o:p></o:p></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;O Ismene, we two
have been born as if with one body&quot;,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>or</span>
to put it a little more literally<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:207.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;O lovely head of Ismene, common to both, born of the
<o:p></o:p></p>

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none;tab-stops:207.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>same</span> self.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:207.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>What hidden depths of feeling
are brought forth in these <span class=GramE>few</span><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 58<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>compact</span>
words! Very strange and peculiar is the character of this Antigone. Outwardly,
there is in her nature <span class=GramE>a strength</span>, a hardness that
amounts almost to harshness. There seems to be no room there for any tender
feelings or love, and any kind of softness. There is only an unflinching
resolve to carry out her duty and fulfill her vow, the rude austerity of an
ascetic.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Her
sister on the other hand is of a diametrically opposite nature. When she hears
of the daring and dangerous resolution of her sister to act in defiance of the
royal edict, she complains in frightened tones, &quot;Such acts are for men,
they do not befit a woman, these defiant attitudes.&quot; She goes on to
suggest that even the work she has undertaken to give a burial to her dead
brother at all costs may not so much be an expression of her sisterly affection
as a token of her hard sense of duty in the fulfilment of a difficult vow. She
has been wandering day and night through the roads of alien lands hand in hand
with her old blind father borne down by fatigue. How pathetic are the words of
the old man almost on the verge of death:<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;Child of an old,
blind sire, Antigone, <o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>What region, say, whose
city have we reached? <o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Who will provide today
with scanted dole <o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>This
wanderer?</span> 'Tis little that he craves, <o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And less obtains – that
less enough for me.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;</span>(Storr)<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.8pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But
one may still wonder how much of this is proof of Antigone's true love for her
father, and how much of it is born of the pride or glory in carrying out her
duty. But it is not altogether like that. This fanatical devotion to duty, this
harsh ascetic trait in Antigone is actually a pose, an outer mask. She has
suppressed, forcibly pushed into the background her innate gift of affection,
her volcanic power of love. There is one she has loved and still loves, but far</p>
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<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 59<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>from</span>
turning her gaze upon this object of her love, she has hardly once taken his
name. She has tortured and sacrificed herself in order to forget about her
love. Not only has she suffered persecution herself – she has done so by her
own choice; she would drag along others as well, her dear sister and even her
dearest beloved, into the same persecution. There has been no respite for her
till the last refuge in death. But this is no other than a form of deep
affection and love, a reverse aspect. I have said in the beginning what depths
of feeling and intense love pervade her body, mind and heart; these have sought
to find their forceful outlet in her very first utterance: the twin sisters are
not two but are one in reality, not two heads but one as it were in possession
of two bodies. How much tenderness lies packed and hidden behind these simple
words! Let me repeat them:<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>O koinon autadelphon Ismenes <span
class=GramE>kara</span>.<o:p></o:p></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:22.5pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:22.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;My own, my sister, O
beloved face,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:22.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Tell me – of all the
curses of our race,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:22.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>What curse shall God not
heap on thee and me? <o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:22.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Surely there is no pain,
no misery,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:22.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>No vileness or dishonour,
that we two<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:22.5pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:5.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>Have not already seen.&quot;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:22.5pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:5.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:22.5pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(<st1:City><st1:place>Murray</st1:place></st1:City>)<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
was Antigone’s hope that her dear sister would eagerly follow her with gladness
as soon as she heard her call. But the faith natural to her simple heart
received a rude shock when she had an unexpected refusal from her
tender-hearted sister. She hardened her heart and in her turn rejected her
sister and declared she would proceed all alone to carry out her duty, she
needed nobody’s help. She paid no heed to the later repentance and entreaties
of her sister.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Her
heart has been overflowing with tenderness and love, but these have found no
way to an outward expression</p>
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line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;'>Page – 60<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>or</span>
fulfilment. The tears of love have been gathering deep within her heart. She
says:<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:16.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;The
deep submerged tears as they shed will turn to ice and seize me all round and
will gradually form the tombstone over my body. Niobe, once queen of <st1:City><st1:place>Thebes</st1:place></st1:City>
was turned to weeping stone. I am like her.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(2)<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:8.85pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
key to the drama in Antigone is to be sought in a conflict or clash between the
claims of the state and the individual's right to follow the truth of his
ideal. The state demands the discipline of laws and the restrictions necessary
for an orderly collective life. It cannot tolerate a deviation or protest. It
does not grant to any individual the right to move a step away from the
prescribed norm. All this ends in tyranny and persecution. The individual on
the other hand tends and drives towards freedom and personal rights, the claim
to live his own life and follow his own ideals. In this drama, the head of the
state has issued orders that no burial rites be given to the deceased traitor
to his city, he has to be left at the outskirts of the city there to be preyed upon
by birds and beasts. His sister considers this to be an insult to her brother,
to her family and to the law of humanity. That is why she would not obey the
state's decree. She takes this to be an illegal, high-handed act on the part of
the state and its leader. Whatever <span class=GramE>be</span> the reverence
due to the law of the state and howsoever clear its authority, it is a man-made
law, temporary and temporal, depending on circumstances. There is another kind
of law, an unwritten code derived from God and that cannot be transgressed:<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:8.85pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;Yes,
for these laws were not ordained of Zeus, <o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
she who sits enthroned with Gods below,<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 61<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Justice enacted not these
human laws.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Nor did deem that thou, a
mortal man,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Couldst by a breath annul
and override<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>The
immutable unwritten Laws of Heaven.</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>They were not-born today,
nor yesterday;<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>They die not, and none
knoweth whence they spring. <o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span>(Storr)<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>These
words are reminiscent of the words of the Vedic Rishi who gave us a picture of
the &quot;Infallible decrees&quot; of Lord Varuna – <i>adabdhani varunasya
vratani. </i>There is no fault or sin in obeying the Laws of Heaven in
disregard of the laws of men. Antigone would be courting death, a cruel death,
at the hands of mortal man, in order to be true to a vow ordained by something
higher than man, and she does so in the end.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There
is shown in this play another clash or conflict which takes place within
Antigone herself, in the depths of her inner being. This concerns her intimate
personal feelings, the satisfaction and fulfilment of her own life, the hidden
secret of her love. We have seen a king renounce his throne for the sake of his
personal love. We are also familiar with the spectacle of a man, or god-man,
sacrificing personal love for the good of the state. Antigone too walks on these
paths. She has not demanded the satisfaction of her personal, too intimately
personal needs. In her urge to carry out her vow, she has crushed under a
weight of stone the feelings, the impulses, the inspiration of her heart.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Sri
Rama had sacrificed his love of wife out of consideration for his subjects; it
was part of his duty as king. He had, at least at one time, shown a greater
regard for his brother than for his wife. The words he has been made to say by Valmiki in this connection have attained celebrity:<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><i>dese</i></span><i>
<span class=SpellE>dese</span> kalatrani dese <span
class=SpellE>dese</span> ca bandhavah<o:p></o:p></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><i>tam</i></span><i>
tu desam na pasyami yatra bhrata sahodarah</i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 62<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;Wives
one can get in every nook and corner, and relatives around. But I have yet to
find a country where one's brother is a true brother.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>These words of the poet
and sage have never been cherished among women, far less by the moderns. But
the strange thing is that Sophocles has put almost identical words in. the
mouth of Antigone, they sound like an echo. When she was accused of having thrown
away her heart's love and oppressed her beloved out of regard for what she
considered her duty, this is what she said in reply:<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;A husband lost,
another might be found;<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Another son <span
class=GramE>be</span> born if one were slain. <o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But I<b>, </b>when Hades
holds my parents twain, <o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Must brotherless abide for
ever.&quot;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(<st1:City><st1:place>Murray</st1:place></st1:City>)<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The point to note is that
whereas in Valmiki a man is made to say that wives are available by the dozen
in every land, Sophocles makes a woman declare as if in retort that husbands
too are to be had in plenty.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(3)<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Aeschylus,
Sophocles and Euripides are the three supreme creators of drama in ancient <st1:country-region><st1:place><span
  class=GramE>Greece</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class=GramE>,</span>
each of them is different from the others. Aeschylus the senior most of the
three has vision and spirit and strength. He throws out the spark and lustre of
inner knowledge, there is in him a swift natural movement of a primal
concentrated consciousness. He is therefore allotted a seat in the very first
rank, with Shakespeare, Dante and Homer. Sophocles reminds one of the French
dramatists with their restraint and measure, their skill in delineating subtle
feeling. There is here nothing in excess, but there is a sense of subdued force
and a <span class=SpellE>sug<span
class=GramE>gestion</span> of all-round perfection. </span></p>

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solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 63</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span class=SpellE>Euripides on the
other hand has in him all the doubts and questionings of the human mind, all
its curiosity and comment. He reaches out towards the modern mentality, has
almost come in line with it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:13.2pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
was the custom in those days to write trilogies or tetralogies, that is, plays
grouped together in a series of three or four. Each of these groups was built
around the same theme and dwelt on the different parts of one and the same
story; but every piece was to be a self-contained whole, both as a story and a
play. Such for example was the Theben trilogy of Sophocles based on the story
of the Theben king, Oedipus, and his daughter Antigone, or else, the Orestenian
trilogy of Aeschylus dealing with the story of king Agamemnon and his son
Orestes – Orestes was the Hamlet of Greek tragedy. The fourth piece in a
tetralogy used to be something amusing, like a farce that rounded off the main
programme in a Yatra performance of <st1:place>Bengal</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But
the theme of tragic drama in Greek is invariably and excessively melodramatic,
with a full and free use of the terrible and even the horrid. Things like
patricide, matricide and infanticide, oppression and torture, abduction of
women, illicit love and incest are represented freely. One gets here the
impression of a primitive humanity with all its unbridled licence. A picture
is presented with fullest possible detail of the vital impulses in their
natural primitive unrefined state.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Our
Ramayana and Mahabharata too, no doubt, are replete with instances of this type
of mentality. But it has been characterised there as being typical not of man,
but of the titan, the demon and the ogre, it is not truly human. The names
given to these types indicate their nature. These belong to the undivine nature,
whereas man belongs to the divine. The struggle between the divine and the
undivine, the gods and the titans, and the final victory of the divine and the
gods, this has been the keynote of</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 64</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>great</span>
creative work in Indian art and literature, this is the characteristic manner
of the Indian conception of life.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Undoubtedly,
man in his beginnings was like a primitive beast. But a way had to be found to
evolve out of this primitive state a superior kind of humanity. The attacks of
the lower nature, the primitive impulses were to be squarely met and caught by
the hands and held under like the horns of a bull. He was to learn to endure
calmly the elements that create difficulties, dangers and disorders. He had to
cross through them into a superior status. He had to see if the mad unseeing
impulses could not be changed into the prowess of the warrior, anger into fiery
energy, cruelty into <span class=SpellE>valour</span>; he was to see how far
the greed for things could be transformed into pure enjoyment. This has been a
necessary step in the evolution of humanity.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:261.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It is this purifying or transformation of the lower nature
that has been called Katharsis by the Greeks. Spiritual seekers in <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
knew this as the purification of the inner man, <i>citta-suddhi. </i>Indeed,
one main aim of Greek tragedy was to effect this inner purification.<span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
Greek dramatists have in this respect followed a double line of action or
procedure. In the first place, no untoward event, be it murder or any undesirable
act, could be represented on the stage, that is, openly in public. Any such
thing forming part of the plot used to be described in the words of some
character in the play; the Chorus was mainly entrusted with this task.
Secondly, the story or plot of the drama was so chosen as to raise feelings of
disgust or pity in the minds of the audience. Steeped in these feelings of
disgust arid pity, the emotions were to get purified. The untoward events not
being enacted before the eye, only a picture was presented to the imagination
through the medium of language. The grosser things appear as if transfigured in
the light of literary language. Besides, the Greek language itself has a power
of its own, and this power has been utilised by the dramatists</p>
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solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 65<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>as</span>
an instrument of purification. In this language of ancient Greece, there is
such simple beauty and harmony, such an attractive rhythm of movement, a light
and a clarity that anything expressed in this language partakes of its form
and structure and temperament, acquires as if by contagion a strange -lustre
and harmony. Impure and unbridled vital impulses form the subject matter of
Greek drama, but the mind and consciousness which the dramatists bring to bear
on their subject are full of calm and quiet, order and light. The language of
the Greeks has been a simple easy and natural instrument in their hands for the
work of purifying the heart and clarifying the mind and the inner being.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(4)<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That
was the golden age of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and <st1:City><st1:place>Athens</st1:place></st1:City>, famed in history as the
Age of Pericles. Pericles was the leading man in his city, the chief Archon of
the state, and a man of great genius. It was largely thanks to his genius that
the whole of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region>
could attain its supreme point of greatness in all manner of achievement and
creative ability. In every field there appeared in that age men of outstanding
gifts. In the realm of tragic drama there were Aeschylus, Sophocles and
Euripides; in comedy there was Aristophanes. Herodotus the father of History
was there and the master sculptor Phidias. Above all, there was Socrates with
his band of young disciples. All of them produced their wonderful work during
this period of a little more than a hundred years. We may remember that
precisely during this period, that is about five hundred years before <span
class=GramE>Christ,</span> Lord Buddha made his appearance in the East, in <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
It was thus an Age of Transition, the beginning of a New Age in the history of
mankind.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A
remarkable thing about these ancients is that almost all of them lived to a
ripe old age. They had such an <span class=SpellE>abun</span><span class=GramE>dance</span>
</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.15in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;'>Page – 66<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>of vital force that they retained their capacity to work undiminished till the
last days of their life. Sophocles went on writing plays till his ninetieth
year. He could count as many or more works to his credit than the number of
years in his life; he had written more than a hundred of which only about half
a dozen are still extant. About Euripides it is said that he had composed
twenty three tetralogies, making a total of ninety two pieces, or about one for
every year of his life; only some ten out of this number have survived. All of
these men were poets and artists and men of high intellectual calibre, but most
of them thought fit not to confine themselves within the inner sanctum of their
chosen work; they were also great men of action, they devoted themselves to
public work in the service of their state, they did a good deal of politics,
even took part in wars as common soldiers or as commanders.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>An
amusing anecdote is told about Sophocles. Towards the end of his life, when he
was nearing ninety, his son petitioned the court that his father had been
suffering from mental derangement on account of age and in this condition had
bequeathed his possessions to a grandson to the exclusion of the son. On being
summoned before the court, Sophocles said these words to the judges: &quot;If I
am Sophocles, then I cannot have a deranged mind. And if my mind has got deranged,
then I am no longer Sophocles.&quot; With these words, he read out some
extracts from his play, <i>Oedipus at Colonus, </i>which he had just composed
and asked the <span class=GramE>court,</span> &quot;Is it possible for anyone
with a derranged head to write like this?&quot; Needless to add, he was
acquitted. This <i>Oedipus at Colonus </i>is the last piece he wrote and has
been acclaimed with two of his other works as his finest achievement.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.0pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;'>Page – 67<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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