Annie In Antigone

As Creon and his men race to correct their error, Annie enters through the plantation. She is dressed in white, holding a veil in her hands. Surrounding her is a chorus of dead Confederate soldiers, two of which are her brothers Earl and Paul. “Look at me,” she says, “men of my fatherland/setting out on that last road” (102). She speaks directly to the dead, and the dead answer. The chorus taunts her impending death, for which Annie takes offense, asking that the spirits wait until she is dead. However the dead are relentless, even pinning her fate in her father’s role as a rebel captain (102). As where the original Antigone hangs herself in her tomb, Annie chooses to throw herself into the river, to “wed the lord of the dark waters”