Antigone synthesis
In the play Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone has many moments when she is protesting those in power, laws, and traditions. As in the article’s Showdown over oil pipeline becomes a national movement for Native Americans, Student protests growing over gender-equal dress codes, and Colin Kaepernick and other pro athletes pay a price for activism Antigone and the peoples in the articles protests those in power, laws and traditions of their society. When people’s personal beliefs conflict with the laws of their society they protest over what they think is right.
When a person’s personal beliefs conflict with society they protest over those in power. In play Antigone Antigone protests creon by talking bad about him. In
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In Antigone Creon broke the tradition of burial when he didn't bury Polyneices. In the prolog of Antigone Antigone shows us that Creon broke the tradition when she says “Creon buried our brother Eteoclês With military honors, gave him a soldier’s funeral, And it was right that he should; but Polyneicês, They fought as bravely and died as miserably,-- They say that Creon has sworn No one shall bury him, no one mourn for him, But this body must lie in the fields, a sweet treasure For carrion birds to find as they search for food. That is what they say... I am going to bury him” Antigone protest over Creon breaking tration by buying Polyneices and in the end dying for her beliefs. In the article Colin Kaepernick and other pro athletes pay a price for activism Colin Kaepernick breaks the tradition of standing for the National Anthem by sitting down for it in support for black lives matter . In the fourth paragraph of the article it says “Kaepernick’s decision not to rise for the national anthem in protest of police killings” Colin Kaepernick protested his society’s traditions by sitting down for the national anthem. When a person’s personal beliefs conflict with their society's traditions they should protest like Antigone and