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Antigone Essay, Research Paper
Antigone
A crucial question in Antigone is, ?When someone makes a law that is
known by the public to be morally wrong, should the public break his/her
law? Or should they collaborate with that person by obeying? Antigone felt
that the law (no one was supposed to bury her brother Polyneicies) should
be broken so she took what she thought to be appropriate measures. This
is called Civil Disobedience. Another question is ?Is Civil Disobedience
morally and ethically correct?? The Nazis say one thing, and the Vietnam
war veterans say one thing.
The Nazis did not believe that Civil Disobedience was ethically or
morally righteous, because of there inhumane acts upon the Jews in the
1940?s probably led some Nazi officials to think about Civil Disobedience,
after all the were told to do a job and if they didn?t they would have been
killed. As Adolph Hitler showed the world, just because one idiotic person
thinks something is right that doesn?t make it right. The Nazi officials
parallel Ismene, because there is a law that they both knew to be wrong but
they are so afraid to step up that they just collaborate with it. Another
parallel is that the Jews and Polyneicies? soul. The Jews were caught up in
the middle of the officials, the liberating nations, and Adolph Hitler. As was
Polyneicies? soul caught in between Creon, Antigone, and Ismene. Also, in
that they both had to undergo extreme pain, torture, and horror. Lastly the
invading nations parallel Antigone in that they both fought against the law
in both their times. Antigone fought to save her brother?s spirit, and the
invading nations fought to save the Jews.
Civil disobedience is wrong even though it might not go with any
religious beliefs, but for Christians, laws are established by governments,
governments are established by God, so what is there to go against besides
God?s own law? Laws are made for the communities own safety, or own
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