Essay Archive - Antigone: Civil Disobedience
Antigone: Civil Disobedience
The short play, Antigone, was written in 441 B.C. by the Greek playwright
Sophocles. It deals with some of the most basic problems that affect a society.
One of them is Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience both a right and
responsibility of a person to fight an unjust law.
Government is given the right to control a group of people by the people
composing the group. If an individual has a problem with an injustice they feel
has been placed against them, then they have a right to convey this. Civil
Disobedience allows one to convey their thoughts and ide....
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