Later, however, she expressed her eagerness to share the punishment and even death with her stronger and nobler sister. She had no spirit for the deed of daring. She was a typical woman, who wished to do many noble things, but at the time of execution her courage failed her. In the Antigone, Ismene, though more active, was still as helpless. “And what shall I do all alone and helpless? When Oedipus mysteriously disappeared forever, Ismene became disconsolate, and thought of dying:Īntigone, ever stronger than Ismene, suggested that she [Antigone) should die. When Creon ordered his guards to take away Antigone and Ismene as hostage of their father, both the sisters stood in awe, and did not know how to record their protest. She came there as a messenger and brought the sad tidings that their two brothers were engaged in an internecine war. At Athens Ismene met her father and sister. Antigone led the blind man across the different land. Devoted and affectionate to her father, she stayed at Thebes, but her heart was all the while with her father in exile. In The Oedipus at Colonus Ismene appeared, but there also she was in the background.
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