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Contrasting Antigone and Ismene: Loyalty and Conflict

Antigone and Ismene demonstrate contrasting traits in their responses to the burial of Polynieces. Antigone shows unwavering determination and loyalty to her family, while Ismene exhibits fear and practicality by refusing to aid her sister. The sisters' differing perspectives on honoring familial duties create tension and conflict, resulting in Antigone's anger towards Ismene. Ismene's reluctance to help Antigone can be viewed as both practical and cowardly, as she prioritizes self-preservation over familial loyalty. Through their interactions, Sophocles explores themes of loyalty, duty, and personal sacrifice within the context of family dynamics.

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Contrasting Antigone and Ismene: Loyalty and Conflict

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  1. Antigone English 10

  2. Answer one of these questions about the reading last week. Your response needs to be a paragraph in length. • What differences do you notice between Antigone and her sister, Ismene? Why do you think that Ismene will not help her sister with her plan? • Do you think Antigone has thought her decision to bury Polynieces through? Why or why not? What proof do you have? • Why does Antigone get so angry at her sister? Do you think that Ismene is being practical or that she is being cowardly? What reasons do you have for that opinion?

  3. Answer one of these questions about the reading yesterday. Your response needs to be a paragraph in length. Support your answer with details from the story. • Why does the chorus tell the story of the battle between Polyneices and Eteocles? What function does it serve within the story? • What was the goal of Creon’s speech on pgs. 9-10? Did he accomplish that goal? • Do you think that Creon’s punishment of Polyneices is just and fair?

  4. Answer one of these questions about the reading last week. Your response needs to be a paragraph in length. Support your answer with details from the story. • Why did the guard tell Creon of the burial of Polyneices? What was the guard afraid would happen to him? • Why does Creon feel so differently toward Polyneices and Eteocles? • What is the chorus praising on pgs 13-14? Is their praise justified? • Why do you think Sophocles includes the detail about the whirlwind from Heaven on pgs 15-16?

  5. Terms to Know • Tragedy: Aristotle defines it as a play that recounts an important series of events in the life of a significant person which culminate in an unhappy catastrophe • Hamartia: Error, mistaken judgment or misstep through which the hero succumbs to misfortune; the error is not necessarily a flaw in character but it does move the character from happiness to misery. • Fatal Flaw/Tragic Flaw: flaw, error or defect in the tragic hero which leads to the hero’s downfall

  6. Terms to Know • Hubris: overweening pride which results in the misfortune of the protagonist; a tragic flaw that results from excessive pride, ambition, overconfidence, etc., that leads the protagonist to break a moral law or ignore a divine warning with catastrophic results. • Catharsis: viewer learns to avoid the pitfalls to which the hero succumbed; provides the opportunity to vicariously experience fear and pity which is emotionally cleansing. • Arête: inborn capacities

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