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Essay Archive - Antigone and Ismene
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; Antigo....
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