... your side Antigonê: Whose the deed was, Hades and the dead are witnesses; a friend in words is not the friend that I love Ismene: Nay, sister, reject me not, but let me die with you, and duly honor the dead Antigonê: Do not share my death nor claim deeds to which you have not put your hand my death will suffice" (Sophocles 93-94). Antigonê does not want Ismene to share the death sentence. She is too proud of what she has done, and wants everyone to recognize that she alone was brave and courageous enough to give her brother, Polyneices, a proper burial. She is too stubborn to see that Ismene feels sorry for abandoning her in the beginning, and wants to take the blame. Therefore, Ismene is just pushed away. Also, the following excerpt written by the critic Eliot, supports the hubristic personality of Antigonê, "...while both are also conscious ...

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