Antigone: Civil Disobedience

The short play, Antigone, was written in 441 B.C. by the Greek playwrightSophocles. It deals with some of the most basic problems that affect a society.One of them is Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience both a right andresponsibility of a person to fight an unjust law. Government is given the right to control a group of people by the peoplecomposing the group. If an individual has a problem with an injustice they feelhas been placed …

…now at the hands of breed ofmen- all for reverence, my reverence for the gods!” (page 106) This quoteillustrates how Antigone believed that the power of the gods was greater thanthe power of any king. If she had obeyed Creon, she would have disobeyed thestronger power of the gods which could have had more of a devastating result onher. Antigone shows us, thru Civil Disobedience, that breaking some ofsocieties laws is both a right and responsibility.