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Antigone and Ismene are were given the same opportunity for redemption. If this play is looked at from a contextual point a view, we could say that the respect for the Gods and afterlife was the number one priority. During the first scene of the play Antigone, we see the character differences of Antigone and Ismene as they take different stances on what to do about polyneceis.

Antigone and Ismene have different motivations for their actions in life, which come from their value of human life or the afterlife.
Citatiation : Antigone: There it is, and now you can prove what you are: a true sister, or a traitor to your family.
Ismene: Bury him! You have just said the new law forbids it.

Citation Antigone: I say that this crime is holy. . . . It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands: we die forever . . .you may do as you like, since
apparently the laws of gods mean nothing to you.
Ismene: but I have no strength to break laws that were made for the......

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