Roberto Hays

English

2 October, 08:52

Read the excerpt from "The Royal House of Thebes."

Which archetype does Ismene best represent?

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 be thus

terribly punished. "We are women," she told her sister. We

must obey. We have no strength to defy the State."

the villain

the heroine

the warrior

the coward