Antigone Is Right Essay

In everyday life, we face choices that can be decided for or against based on our moral compass. But what if what you believe to be right cannot be easily expressed due to the fact of a governing law preventing it? This is the case of Antigone in Sophocles’ tragedy. It is her against the rest of the world when she tries to fight what she believes to be right. In Antigone by Sophocles is about Antigone’s struggle to combat the law of the land while maintaining her pursuit in following her moral law, and justifying whether she is right or wrong. After Creon decides not to bury Polyneices, Antigone feels he deserves a proper burial and should speak out against it. T. Burns in his article, "Sophocles’ Antigone and the History of the Concept of Natural Law." argues that Antigone interprets Creon’s commands not to bury Polyneices as a decree but not a law, so she does not have to listen to him but instead follow her own moral law. He also states that Sophocles would have been sympathetic to Antigone due to his own political beliefs. Sophocles believed in a more democratic society rather than a totalitarian society (Burns). This shows that Antigone is following her own moral code rather than what someone else decrees her to do. Antigone confides in Ismene to join her in fighting for a proper burial, but Ismene refuses because of her fear of speaking

moral law is the events of the Holocaust. At the time, the people of Germany had to follow the rule of Adolf Hitler because he was the only role model to pull them out of their failing country. Once Hitler and the Nazi Party gained absolute power, no one had a choice but to follow their rule or suffer the consequences in terms of the persecution of the Jews. Many of the members of the Nazi Party and citizens of Germany did not agree with the unfair treatment of the Jewish people but them were only following orders. This again raises the question of should a law be broken if you feel it is