Antigone vs Ismene by Sophocles
Title: Antigone vs Ismene by Sophocles
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 604 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Antigone vs Ismene by Sophocles
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 604 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
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
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human justice. In Ismene's final words, she
abandons her practical attitudes with a sudden rush of devotion towards the sister she
abandoned in time of need. "Let me stand beside you and do honor the dead"(358).
Ismene heroically takes a stand and shares Antigone's crime.
The two sister's were crushed by the vindictive Creon, yet they were winners in
spirit, in their determination , they died together, as one. Nobility shall live in their
hearts forever.