Which archetype does Ismene best represent? the villain
the heroine
the warrior
the coward
Read the excerpt from "The Roval House of Thebes."
Antigone and Ismene heard with horror what Creon
had decided. To Ismene, shocking as it was,
overwhelming her with anguish for the pitiful dead
body and the lonely, homeless soul, it seemed,
nevertheless, that nothing could be done except to
acquiesce to accept without protest). She and
Antigone were utterly alone. All Thebes was exulting
that the man who had brought war upon them should
e thus terribly punished. "We are women," she told
mer sister. "We must obey. We have no strength to defy
The State."