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And while they went to fetch the maiden Ismené, Antigone said to the king: "Is it not enough for thee to slay me? What need to say more? For thy words please me not, nor mine thee. Yet what nobler thing could I have done than to bury my mother's son? And so would all men say, but fear shutteth their mouths." "Nay," said the king, "none of the children of Cadmus thinketh thus, but thou only.
As a reward Oedipus received the great kingdom of Thebes and the hand of the widowed queen Jocasta in marriage. Four children were born to them two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, and two daughters, Antigone and Ismené. Now the gods had decreed that Oedipus should murder his own father and marry his own mother, and by a curious chance this was precisely what he had done.
I seek a Rebecca for my daughter and not an Ismene." "I did not ask you here," retorted Apollodorus. "But if you quit us to-morrow, you as will be followed by our reverent regard. Think no worse of us because we adapt ourselves, more, perhaps, than is fitting, to the ways and ideas of the people among whom we have grown up, and in whose midst we have been prosperous, and whose interests are ours.
Ismene wept bitterly when she said good-by to her father; but Antigone placed her father's hand upon her shoulder, said that she would never forsake him, and left the city, tenderly supporting and guiding him.
He threatens to destroy both girls, but Antigone is sure that public opinion is with her, though for the moment it is muzzled through fear. Ismene is brought in and offers to die with her sister; Antigone refuses her offer, insisting that she alone has deserved chastisement.
These are names, mere names that divide us; but if you were called anything else than Agne Ismene, for instance, or Eudoxia would you be at all different from what you are? There you see no, stay where you are you must listen while I tell you that Isis, the much maligned Isis, is nothing and represents nothing but the kindly influences of the Divinity, on nature and on human life.
I seek a Rebecca for my daughter and not an Ismene." "I did not ask you here," retorted Apollodorus. "But if you quit us to-morrow, you as will be followed by our reverent regard. Think no worse of us because we adapt ourselves, more, perhaps, than is fitting, to the ways and ideas of the people among whom we have grown up, and in whose midst we have been prosperous, and whose interests are ours.
"Until one realizes the shortcomings of a master," he said in a lecture, "it is impossible to understand him or to take the beauty of his works to heart When Sophocles repeats himself the Electra is but a feeble study for the Antigone, or possibly a feeble copy of it we get near the man; the limitations of his outlook are characteristic: when he deforms his Ajax with a tag of political partisanship, his servitude to surroundings defines his conscience as an artist; and when painting by contrasts he poses the weak Ismene and Chrysothemis as foils to their heroic sisters, we see that his dramatic power in the essential was rudimentary.
But Antigone turned from her, saying: "Not so; thou hast no part or lot in the matter. For thou hast chosen life and I have chosen death; and even so shall it be." And when Ismené saw that she prevailed nothing with her sister, she turned to the king and said: "Wilt thou slay the bride of thy son?" "Ay," said he, "there are other brides to win!"
But the fair Ismene was not in the least disposed to listen to this grave and bigoted suitor.
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