How the Movie a Few Good Men and the Play Antigone Found Honor in What

Antigone eventually got tired of listening to King Creon talk because he just wouldn’t listen to what she had to say. It even got to the point where she was begging to be killed. Religious beliefs

The different characteristics of different people can cause certain people to be negatively affected because of the actions they take. This is shown in Antigone, which is a tragedy about how pride can get the best of you and if law or moral code is more important. Sophocles showed the reader that not all the decisions made by people by his or her conscience because in hindsight it is not the most intelligent resolution. When Creon does not take the advice of Haimon or Tiresias he obstinately refused because he believed his thoughts were always correct. In like manner, Creon had no real reason to make the law against burying Polynices because no one in the country wanted it but him. Furthermore, King Creon did not go through with his law because Antigone wanted to die and his felt that if she died feeling that way, it would not feel that he would be pleased that his law worked. No matter who assumes major leadership, the abuse of power is inevitable because power always corrupts.

This idea is crucial to the development of the vigilante because this is exactly how the vigilante views the law and the government. As Robert B. Ray describes it the outlaw hero or vigilante’s motto is “I don’t know what the law is, but I do know what’s right and wrong.” The motto that Ray puts forward is analogous with Thoreau’s view of government, that it might as well not exist because the individuals moral compass in more important than the majority’s.

All around us laws are being broke; severe, mild, for a good cause, or for a bad one. When a police car, fire truck or an ambulance speeds, they are breaking the law. However, it is allowed since they are doing everything in their power to protect, serve and rescue. As an old saying goes 'For every rule, there will be an exception', it makes sense to have an exception for breaking a morally unjust law in good conscience. In life, multiple paths will present itself and after all else has failed, it is acceptable to move on to the last possible option if no serious harm is done-even if it means breaking the law to do so. After all, An unjust law is no law at

using their neon yellow plate, they shall be sentenced to one year in a state prison.

In the story "Antigone," Antigone was the only woman who believed in all man and woman should be treated equal. Not just that, she also believed that everyone should follow the God's law not only the citizens but the nobles also. Antigone is willing to risk anything to have her brother buried with honor, while Ismene worries solely for the safety of her sister. According to the story "Antigone" women didn't have a place in society and those who have power can control life.

Over the past couple months, our English 9 class read and acted out the classic

All entered pleas of not guilty or no contest and each was sentenced by visiting Judge Michael Nunner to a $250 fine, court costs and 10 days in jail, suspended pending they have no further violations of law before turning 21 years old.

Justice is the essence of life and is what the whole world should aspire. It is also all what Antigone wanted for herself and for her brother. Antigone is a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles about two sisters (Antigone and Ismene) whose brothers (Polyneices and Eteocles) killed each other in a fight over who received the throne. Eteocles fought with the town of Thebes and Polyneices attained an army from Argos. Since Polyneices fought against his hometown Theban army, he was considered to be a ‘trader’. When they died, the new king Creon made the law that no one was allowed to give Polyneices a burial because he was a ‘trader’ of the town. One sister came to peace with the law and one sister rebelled; this was Antigone. Ismene tried to

The Proper Behavior Differing Ideas. Control. Sacrifice. Self-Interest.

This is how they should balance their respect to the law and the respect to their consciences. A. Jay Adler in “Edward Snowden and the Question of Authority,” explains Socrates situation, “Socrates defied what he thought unjust law, law that required he acknowledge the existence of gods in which he did not believe. But he accepted his punishment for that defiance and declared his respect for law itself.” Citizen’s morality goes against unjust laws, but they do not try to avoid the justice of laws; they recognize the errors in the law and their own error of going against the constitution, so they accept the punishment that their acts deserve. King in “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” states, “I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.” The perfect balance to follow the authority of the law and one’s conscience rests on one’s willingness to face and accept the consequences of one’s wrong-doing. In the one hand, people act according to their conscience and break an unjust law; on the other hand, they demonstrate a respect for laws by facing the consequences. This act of civil disobedience it is then the balance between moral and law

The capacity of culture to ensure the success of a society comes from its capacity to maintain the same meaning for symbols, language, values, norms, and roles. Through symbols, members of the same culture recognize each other. Through language, members of the same society can communicate effectively because they appropriate standard meanings to symbols. Through values, members of a culture are able to define what is desirable and what is undesirable, hence directing not just actions, but also points of views. However, it is through norms, that members of society gain a sense of security and trust in their personal interactions.

The play Antigone was written by Sophocles around four hundred forty B.C.E, in the height of the golden age of Greece. Theater was then, as it is now, a medium through which to implicate the outlooks of its writer and to examine moral issues, whilst providing entertainment. The subjects discussed through theater were often deeply rooted in the dialogue of the characters in the plays and struck the chords of the audience such that enlightenment could take place, and in that day and age this purpose was valued. Each episode and stasimon was laced with nuances of whatever message the author wished to convey; political themes were common, particularly regarding the foundations of democracy that were being laid, as well as themes of fate and

to take a chance and follow the laws set forth for them, or should they only

Every day of every year, people walk about the earth with differing moral standards, making it difficult for society to set a predetermined definition of right and wrong; what may seem right to one person, may seem wrong to another, causing each person to confront injustices in different ways. Therefore, an individual has the role of preventing or supporting an injustice depending on whether his or her morals consider it one. Morals, which some people obtain by stepping into another person's shoes, will identify the injustice. Every moral of each person will put a different value, and a different importance on each wrongdoing, fault, or offense. The differences in individuals will cause a person's role in confronting injustice to change based on his or her definition of morals.