Part one of term paper
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 ...

Part two of term paper
... agree with them. Antigone conveys this thought when she tells, “No one will ever convict me for a traitor” (Page 61). In a nonviolent from, Civil Disobedience is a basic human right. Often society has laws that individuals feel is immoral, or unjust. Antigone decided to bury Polynices, for she was obeying the gods, even though it was declared illegal by Creon. “Look on me, you noble sons of Thebes- the last of a great line kings, I alone, see what I suffer now at the hands of breed of m ...