Very scared is the way in which Ismene feels about what Antigone wants her to do in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).
Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone wants to break a royal edict by burying her brother Polyneices. The crime carries the death penalty. Antigone is not afraid of breaking the law or facing the punishment, but her sister Ismene is.
The sister of Antigone is Ismene.
Ismene is Antigone's sister
At first, Ismene doesn't want to help her sister Antigone bury their brother Polyneices. But she changes her mind once Antigone is caught in the act. Ismene wants to support her sister, even die with her, and give honor to the dead. Additionally, she says that life without the living presence of Antigone holds no charm.
Ismene wouldn't help Antigone bury the body of their brother, but when Antigone is caught she won't let Ismene take any of the blame because she was loyal to the law and not to her family.
Ismene
Ismene is Antigone's sister
The sister of Antigone is Ismene.
Ismene is Antigone's sister
At first, Ismene doesn't want to help her sister Antigone bury their brother Polyneices. But she changes her mind once Antigone is caught in the act. Ismene wants to support her sister, even die with her, and give honor to the dead. Additionally, she says that life without the living presence of Antigone holds no charm.
Antigone & Ismene
Ismene wouldn't help Antigone bury the body of their brother, but when Antigone is caught she won't let Ismene take any of the blame because she was loyal to the law and not to her family.
Ismene
Ismene
An ever strengthened desire to do the deed is the effect of Ismene's reply to Antigone's appeal for help in burying their brother Polyneices in the play "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Creon, King of Thebes and uncle to the Princesses Antigone and Ismene, refuses to honor god-given guarantees of proper burials and funerary rites to all Thebes. One of the Thebans so affected is the princesses' disloyal dead brother Polyneices. Antigone wants to go ahead and bury Polyneices, Ismene tries to talk her out of it, and Antigone becomes ever more determined to do the deed and to insult Ismene for having a different opinion.
Nothing indicates that differences are settled between Antigone and Ismene in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Ismene does not appear in the play after her explosive interaction with her sister Antigone during the latter's trial. Subsequently, Creon indicates that he will release Ismene, as innocent of wrongdoing, and punish Antigone, as the lone perpetrator.
Ismene reacts with fear. She wants Polyneices to be given an honorable burial as much as Antigone does, but she is far too terrified to do it herself because of the death penalty that Creon has imposed for anyone who attempts to bury Polyneices. Out of fear, she refuses to help Antigone bury Polyneices. However, later on, she attempts to die alongside her sister for the crime that Antigone committed by herself.
nigah screw you. I aint helpin' antigone she a dumb hoe.