Persuasive Essay On Antigone

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Fighting gets us nowhere. Even though we say that fighting isn’t the way to solve anything, we spend an awful lot of time doing it. Like, Antigone and Ismene fought quite a bit when Antigone wanted to bury her brothers corpse after he had just been tossed aside for the animals to eat. Ismene is trying to talk her out of it because she tells antigone to “Think of the danger! Think of what Creon will do” but Antigone reassures her that “Creon is not strong enough to stand in my way”(prologue, l. 34-35) . Ismene continues to think that it is a bad idea and refuses to participate. Antigone and Ismene are fighting like two little schoolgirls, like those from Lord of the Flies. The children fight like cats and dogs over mostly everything,
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