Compare And Contrast Characters In Antigone

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As they are introduced in the beginning of Antigone, the two sisters, Antigone and Ismene, are portrayed as opposites. Antigone believes that it is more shameful for her to leave one of her brothers, who is considered a traitor, unburied than breaking the decree that says her brother cannot be mourned. She represents the importance of family over the law of the city. Antigone is not scared of being killed for treason; death is something that will reunite her with the ones she has lost, and she sees death as the highest ranked kingdom as that is where eternity will be spent. In contrast, Ismene would rather beg the dead, her brother in this case, for forgiveness than to disobey whomever currently is in power over her. She is first loyal