Antigone vs Ismene by Sophocles

Title: Antigone vs Ismene by Sophocles
Category: Literature / European Literature
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Antigone vs Ismene by Sophocles

        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 …showed first 75 words of 620 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 620 total…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.

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