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Antigone and Ismene


The personalities of the two sisters; Antigone and Ismene, are as
different from one another as tempered steel is from a ball of cotton. One is
hard and resistant; the other: pliable, absorbing and soft. Antigone would
have been a strong, successful 90's type woman with her liberated and strong
attitude towards her femininity, while Ismene seems to be a more dependent
1950's style woman. Antigone acts as a free spirit, a defiant individual,
while Ismene is content to recognize her own limitations and her inferiority of
being a woman.

In the Greek tragedy "Antigone", by Sophocles; Antigone learns that
King Creon has refused to give a proper burial for the slain Polyneices,
brother of Ismene and Antigone. Infuriated by this injustice, Antigone shares
the tragic news with Ismene. From her first response, "No, I have heard
nothing"(344). Ismene reveals her passivity and helplessness in the light of
Creon's decree. Thus, from the start, Ismene is......

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