Antigone – Foils

Antigone Foil characters who have contrasting or opposite qualities. In the play Antigone by Sophocles, Ismene is shown to be in massive contrast to Antigone, who is her sister. She is portrayed as a gentle and passive maculation Antigone is depicted as an aggressive and headstrong woman. In the prologue, Antigone and Ismene are shown discussing what has transpired since their go out and subsequent return to Thebes.In this scene Antigone asks her sister in farm animal 6-7 have they told you of the new decree by our King Creon? which Ismene then responds that I have learned nothing. I know that dickens sisters lost two brothers, a double death in a single hour, and I know that the Argive army fled in the night save beyond this, nothing (Sophocles 07-9).In this Ismene is show to be not very(prenominal) well informed and out of the fold while Antigone seems to know in detail all that has occurred and all that has yet to occur as seen when she replies to Ismene that Creon conce al our brother Eteocles with military honors, gave him a soldiers funeral, and it was right that he should but Polyneices, who fought as bravely and dies as miserably they say that Creon has verbalize no one shall bury him, no one mourn for him, but his body must lie in the fields, a sweet protect for carrion birds to find as they search for food.That is what they say, and our good Creon is coming here to call it publicly and the penalty stoning to death in the public even up There it is, and now you can prove what you are A authorized sister or a traitor to your family (Sophocles 015-27).