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Monster Essays - 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;  Antigone learns that
King Creon has re....
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