Blog Post: Ismene's Role

Though the beginning of Antigone focuses on the conflict between Ismene and Antigone as well as the blame that Creon places on them both, the majority of the play doesn't refer to Ismene at all. She seems to disappear after Creon tries to punish them both and is ignored in every other event that occurs after it. Why did they not talk to Ismene for most of the play? What even happened to her? I think that though the writer wanted to keep the focus on Antigone/show how she betrayed her family, he should have shown what happened to her to make the story a bit more interesting.