Antigone & Ismene
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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 at ....
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.... as traditionally "feminine", a helpless woman that pays no
mind to political affairs. Doubting the wisdom of her sisters plan to
break the law and bury Polyneices, Ismene argues:
We who are women should not contend 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 parti ....
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Word count: 613
Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
