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Antigone & Ismene - Term Papers

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 Creon has refused to give a proper burial for the slain
Polyneices, ...

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with men;
we who are weak are ruled by the stronger, so that
we must obey....(346)

Once again Ismene's words clearly state her weak, feminine character and
helplessness within her own dimensions. Antigone, not happy with her
sisters response chides her sister for not participating in her crime and
for her passivity, saying, " Set your own life in order"(346). For
Antigone, no law could stand in the way of her strong consideration of her
brother's spirit, not even the punishment of an early death. Ismene is
more practical ; knowing the task is impossible, she feels the situation
to be hopeless.

It is a wonder, which of the two sisters are really guilty of these
chronic charges. Of coarse, Antigone acted so quickly, and failed to take
the advice of the moderate sister, Ismene. Instead, going against Creon's
words, Antigone rashly goes ahead and breaks the law. Antigone is a fool,
she must learn that such defiance, even when justified, is not conductive
to longevity. ...

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Added: 11/1/2008 02:40:45 AM
Category: Arts
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