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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 f ....
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.... 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 justifie ....
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