Antigone as a heroic and tragic archetype must internally struggle with individuality and morality against established rules and laws and can be seen as an external struggle between her sister as a external manifestation of his internal conflict. Antigone therefore is a unique archetype as a heroine and her power and helplessness define her as a woman in politics. Her sister, Ismene, is portrayed as much weaker and can be said to be metaphorical as individual morality is weak compared to established law and Ismene is the personification of morality in a juridical-rational world, according to the emerging Hellenistic establishment. Antigone is willing to use her morals to bury Polyneices, even though it is illegal to do so. Ismene is too weak and afraid and illustrates how fear and individual weakness are an inherent problem in human nature. When Antigone disowns her, it could be seen as a metaphor for the need to disown the weaker side of her nature. This sibling relationship should be further examined, because it has been largely ignored by other scholars and this relationship is rich in literary and political insights. meaning. “Most contemporary political theorists… have focused on the fearsome clash between Antigone and Creon. The relationship between Antigone and her sister Ismene, weaker and more cautious, has not garnered equal attention” (Kirkpatrick, 2001). While Antigone as a character can be analyzed through the lens of law and political science, her relationship with a weaker sister is more than interesting. Since Antigone is willing to use civil disobedience to live up to her own morality, the reader must also examine how a weaker, more fearful person might not be able to use their own judgment, and Ismene is a perfect exam… middle of paper ......f study within literary communities on these female relationships and this is promising because it is necessary to delve deeper into Antigone as a whole and all that it offers readers. Works Cited Englestein, Stefani. “Logic of brothers; or even Antigone”. PMLA, vol. 126, n. 1. 38-54. (2001). JSTOR. Web.Kirkpatrick, Jennet. “The Prudent Dissident: Unheroic Resistance in Sophocles' Antigone.” The Policy Review, Vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 401-424. (2001). JSTOR. Web.****Sophocles. Antigone.Tiefenbrun, Susan W. “On civil disobedience, jurisprudence, feminism and the law in Sophocles and Anouilh's Antigones.” Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, vol. 11, no. 1. 35-51. (1999). JSTOR. Web.Winter, Caroline. “Victorian Antigone: Classicism and Female Education in America, 1840-1900.” American Quarterly, Vol. 53, no. 1. 70-93. (2001). JSTOR. Net.