What does a minor character such as Ismene think of Antigone's and Creon's actions in 'Antigone'?

Answer 1

At first that women need to do what men and kings tell them to do and then that a woman can be right and a man and a king wrong are what Theban Princess Ismene thinks of the actions of Antigone and Creon in the play "Antigone" by ancient Greek playwright Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Ismene indicates in the play's Prologue that women are on earth to obey men and the laws of kings. She therefore thinks that her sister, Theban Princess Antigone, needs to obey Theban King Creon's law against the burial of the body of their brother, Polyneices. But in Episode 2, when she sees that her sister faces the death sentence for respecting the gods when kings contradict divinely expressed will, Ismene decides that a woman does not have to act in a certain male-defined way if that way and that man are wrong.