Antigone Vs Ismene

³Antigone & Ismene² 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 otherpliable, absorbing and soft. Antigone would have been a strong, successful 90¹s type woman with her liberated and strong attitude towards her femininity, while Ismene seems to be a more dependent 1950¹s style woman. Antigone acts as a free spirit, a defiant individual, …

…In Ismene's final words, she abandons her practical attitudes with a sudden rush of devotion towards the sister she abandoned in time of need. ³Let me stand beside you and do honor the dead²(358). Ismene heroically takes a stand and shares Antigone¹s crime. The two sister¹s were crushed by the vindictive Creon, yet they were winners in spirit, in their determination , they died together, as one. Nobility shall live in their hearts forever.