Answer: Antigone is the play's protagonist. In the first moments of the play, Antigone is opposed to her radiant sister Ismene. Unlike her beautiful and docile sister, Antigone is scrawny, sallow, and, withdrawn brat. Antigone has a boyish physique and curses her girlhood. She is the opposite of the melodramatic heroine, the archetypal blond embodied by Ismene. Antigone has always been difficult, terrorizing Ismene as a child, always insisting on the gratification of her desires, refusing to "understand" the limits placed on her.
