Antigone Vs Ismene
³Antigone & Ismene² 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 otherpliable, absorbing and soft. Antigone would have been a strong, successful 90ıs type woman with her liberated and strong attitude towards her femininity, while Ismene seems to be a more dependent 1950ıs 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 ³Antigone², 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, ³No, I have heard nothing²(344). Ismene reveals her passivity and helplessness in
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Approximate Word count = 610
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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