FratFiles

• Save Paper

Antigone: Civil Disobedience


The short play, Antigone, was written in 441 B.C. by the Greek playwright
Sophocles. It deals with some of the most basic problems that affect a society.
One of them is Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience both a right and
responsibility of a person to fight an unjust law.
Government is given the right to control a group of people by the people
composing the group. If an individual has a problem with an injustice they feel
has been placed against them, then they have a right to convey this. Civil
Disobedience allows one to convey their thoughts and ideas in a passive,
nonviolent way. It can be used when one believes that they are morally right,
and that others will agree with them. Antigone conveys this thought when she
tells, "No one will ever convict me for a traitor" (Page 61). In a nonviolent
from, Civil Disobedience is a basic human right.
Often society has laws that individuals feel is immoral, or unjust.
Antigone decided to bury......

View the rest of this paper...

Approximate Word Count: 275
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

Similar Essays

1. Antigone: Civil Disobedience
   

   Antigone: Civil Disobedience. Antigone: Civil Disobedience The short play, Antigone,
   was written in 441 BC by the Greek playwright Sophocles. ...

2. Antigone And Trifles
   

   ... Antigone's glorified act of civil disobedience costs many lives and has horrific
   consequences. Mrs. Hale's modest act of civil disobedience saves lives. ...

3. Non Violent Protest ? Dr. Martin Luther King'S Moral Disobedience ...
   

   ... who is the king and made the law of the land, the law by which Antigone dies. Martin
   Luther King, Jr., the better case for civil disobedience through strong ...

4. Antigone Vs. Socrates In The Crito
   

   ... that Polyneices' body shall be condemned to this because of his civil disobedience
   and treachery against the city. Polyneices' sister, Antigone, upon hearing ...

5. Letter To Birmingham Jail
   

   ... They both are different versions of civil disobedience. Antigone's disobedience
   is driven by the mistreating of her brother Polynesis, which eventually lead to ...