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Antigone versus BTK Killer
The choice to side with family members or to side with the law when a problem arises is a conflict portrayed in real life and in literature. In "Antigone," by Sophocles, Antigone comments a crime against the law to save her brother's soul. A similar conflict arises today with the BTK killer. However, the daughter helped the law by giving a DNA sample to the authorities which lead to her father's arrest. Both Antigone and the BTK killer's daughter had options, made a decision, and faced the consequences.
In the story "Antigone," by Sophocles, Antigone makes a decision whether to follow the laws made by Creon, king of Thebes, and leave her brother unburied, or the laws made by God and bury her brother. Creon decrees that nobody is allowed to bury Polyneices, Antigone's brother, because he betrayed the city of Thebes. "Polyneices,-who came back from exile, and sought to consume utterly with fire the city of his fathers and the......
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