Antigone

Antigone

by Sophocles

Antigone: Essential Passages by Theme: Law vs. Love


Essential Passage 1: Lines 42-49

ANTIGONE:
Will you share in the labor and the deed?

ISMENE:
What is the venture? Where have your thoughts gone?

ANTIGONE:
Will you lift the corpse with this very hand?

ISMENE:
You want to bury him, although it's forbidden in the city! (45)

ANTIGONE:
I'll bury my brother—your brother, too,
though you refuse! I'll not be found a traitor.

ISMENE:
Madwoman, even when Creon forbids...

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True or False: Ismene is willing to share Antigone's punishment even though she did not involve herself

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