Essay Archive - Antigone & Ismene
Antigone & 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; Antigone learns
that King Cre....
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