Identifier: charactersketche00inbrew (find matches)
Title: Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Subjects: Literature Allusions Fiction.
Publisher: New York,: E. Hess
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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heroic attachment to her father and brothers.When CEdipus had blinded himself and was obliged to quit Thebes,Antigone accompanied him and remained with him till his death, when shereturned to Thebes. Creon, the king, had forbidden anyone to bury Poly-nices, her brother who had been slain by his elder brother in battle; butAntigone, in defiance of the prohibition, buried the dead body, and Creonshut her up in a vault under ground, where she hilled herself. When herdisobedience was discovered, her sister Ismene insisted upon declaring herselfAntigones equal in guilt, and upon sharing her punishment. The artisthas marked the difference between the courageous, almost severe nature ofAntigone, and the clinging, gentler character of Ismene, who could not braveCreons anger to give her brother burial, but would accuse herself of thecrime and die with her sister, sooner than live without her. Antigonesheroism has formed the basis of one of Sophocles finest tragedies and of atragedy by Alfieri.
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ANTIGONE AND ISMENE. ANTIOPE 55 ANTONIO were the glowing modesty of her coun-tenance, her silent diffidence, and her sweetreserve; her constant attention to tapestiyor to some other useful and elegant em-ployment ; her diligence in household af-fairs, her contempt of finery in di*ess, andher ignorance of her own beauty. Telem-achus says, She encourages to industryby her example, sweetens labor by themelody of her voice, and excels the best ofpainters in the elegance of her embroid-ery.—Fenelon, Telemaque, xxii. (1700). He (Paul) fancied he had found ia Virginiathe wisdom of Antiope with the misfortimes andthe tenderness of Eucharis.—Bernardin de St.Pierre, Pmil and Virginia (1788). Antipholus, the name of two brothers,twins, the sons of ^geon, a merchant ofSyiacuse. The two brothers were ship-wiecked in infancy, and, being picked upby different cruisers, one was carried toSyracuse, and the other to Ephesus. TheEphesian entered the service of the duke,-and, being fortunate enough t

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