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Underestimating Ismene and showing an unwillingness to compromise or reconcile are the respective judgment error and character frailty that Antigone shows in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone finds her younger sister Ismene weak and lacking in conviction. Likewise, she is intent upon her convictions and has no interest in those of others or in finding common ground between the two. She therefore is unprepared for opportunities with Ismene and Creon to negotiate better fates for herself and the unburied Theban dead. Disdain for others and stubbornness do not improve her lot or that of such disloyal Thebans as her dead brother Polyneices.

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