Are there any circumstances in which you should ignore the law? In Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone ignored the law to do what’s right. Yes when there’s a situation in which people feel as if it’s the right thing to do or if it’s what they believe in. They gotta ignore the law and do it.
How does a tragic hero create flaws and difficulties for people? In the story Antigone, Creon has many series of different tragic flaws. He makes a lot of judgement that lead to the destruction of loved one. As a leader, you have a lot of stress but you should always make the best decision for family and others who you are incharge of.
In the past prideful rulers have caused more destruction and downfall than anything. Having pride may be good, but having to much can be the downfall of man. In the play Antigone, King Creon being overyly prideful ultimately leads to the death of himself emotionally. Creon shows a couple of occasions when he has way to much pride; when Antigone and he sister are condemned to death for trying to give burial rights to their brother, but Creon has them arrested and does not care even though he is related to them.
Antigone’s Moral Development The play Antigone by Sophocles, is about a girl who faces a family conflict over her deceased brother. The protagonist is Antigone and she stays the same morally throughout the play. Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development helps people understand the stages individuals morally move through as they mature more. Because of Antigone’s decisions and ideas at the beginning and the end of the play, she is a morally static character through the story.
When she breaks the law Ismene, her sister, is taken in by the king's guard to be questioned by Creon. Since she is in questioning, there is a chance she will be punished for something that she took no part in burying the body of Polynices, and Antigone only tries to talk Ismene out of trying to take claim on the actions of Antigone. She could have instead brought it up to Creon, which would have saved Ismene from any trouble. This doesn’t mean that everything Antigone does is morally
Here, Antigone is defying the king, and doesn’t care about the consequences she may endure. She is in full awareness that the consequence for her actions it the death penalty, but is willing to
Antigone was not trying to go around breaking laws. She had a very just reason to do it. That reason was the love she had for her
The Altered Morality of Justice Society is unjust, laws do not protect Moral beliefs yet laws always tend to put the hero behind the bars and sometimes that tends to be the solution. Many laws in many forms tend to alter what right means, for example not being able to marry due to the fact that they are the same sex or stoning a Muslim woman to death because she has shown too much of her neck. In the play Antigone written by Sophocles, a young woman named Antigone defies the law. She buries her brother in order for him to go to heaven. However, there was a law that prohibited anyone from burying her brother,Polyneices, because he has attacked his own land, Thebes, to gain power.
The decision of life and death as always been left to one entity: God. As time progresses, humans wanted to wear the clothes of God. Humanity’s greed and pride have sparked a moral dilemma. Even with virtuous intentions, no human should pass judgment on another over the will of God. Human decisions are tainted by defiance of higher authorities, sins against morality, passing judgment based on events without seeing the person entirely.
Many citizens break the law created by the government for a reason you would never expect. One should break the law if one is the agent of injustice. One should follow their morality. Although others might say that one should always obey the law and not risk breaking it, because it could lead to corruption and rebellion. Henry David Thoreau’s claim makes sense that one should break the law if one is the agent of injustice as demonstrated in Antigone, Civil Disobedience, and Hero or Traitor.
In “Antigone” Sophocles proves that it is a moral choice to do something that will result in our death if we have a good enough reason to do it because it shows bravery, proves the importance of human rights, and can create role models for
Conscience vs. Society Everyone faces difficult choices throughout their life, and many of these choices are due to the pressures of society. Society is cruel and everyone, at some point in their lives, has been at the receiving end of that cruelty and felt the sorrow it brings. In Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone finds herself faced with the choice of doing what her heart says is right, and burying her dead sibling or following what society has decreed as the right thing to do and leave him “to be devoured by dogs and fowls of the air.” (Sophocles, page 12) Antigone’s sister, Ismene, faces the same choice though she is less willing to defy society in favor of family obligations.
It can be perceived that Ismene attempts to share responsibility for Antigone’s actions perhaps out of guilt. In the event of Antigone’s death, Ismene will have lost her entire family. In the opening scene, Antigone begs Ismene to help bury Polyneikes, instead Ismene declines saying that it is forbidden by the law of Kreon, king of Thebes. Ismene in lines 78 and 79 says “I am not free. I must obey whoever is in charge” later in this same scene in line 95 and 96, she can be quoted saying “how can I defy this city, I don’t have the strength”.
The search for justice is never ending. Justice may be delayed, denied, or postponed, however, the search is timeless. To be just is to argue for fair rights for all. It is to be someone that will help the people of the community. However, many times justice is not sought and not given to those who need it most.
Mankind is often faced with ambivalence towards law. People believe that is necessary to deal with the world when it is constantly involved in some form of chaotic turmoil. However, this can be considered as one our main glaring flaws within our society because humanity tends to do more harm than originally created. This conflict also arises in the play, Antigone, by Sophocles. Antigone, the character, imitates the struggle between what she deems to be morally upstanding and what the law actually says is equitable.
