In Professor Mary Strange's "The Burial at Thebes", she makes connects between Antigone and politics. She first talks about how the First Amendment calls for the separation between church and state and how the Greeks were the first to think about how the laws of the human world don't always line up with the ones from the godly world.
Antigone went against Creon's wishes to leave her brother without a proper burial, breaking the law. She tells Creon this is right by saying:
"The proclamation you had your force behind it
But it was mortal force, and I, also a mortal,
I chose to disregard it. I abide
By statutes utter and immutable-
Unwritten, original, god-given laws." (29)
She saw how immoral it was to leave her brother in the battle field to rot away. She did what she thought was right.
There are many people throughout history who have done the same as Antigone; they see the wrongness in the laws and try to do what they think is morally right. Martin Luther King Jr. is an example of a person who had these thoughts.
What I got from this article is that there may be laws, but moral will trump it most of the time. People will fight for the laws of the gods and people will fight for what they believe in.
Antigone went against Creon's wishes to leave her brother without a proper burial, breaking the law. She tells Creon this is right by saying:
"The proclamation you had your force behind it
But it was mortal force, and I, also a mortal,
I chose to disregard it. I abide
By statutes utter and immutable-
Unwritten, original, god-given laws." (29)
She saw how immoral it was to leave her brother in the battle field to rot away. She did what she thought was right.
There are many people throughout history who have done the same as Antigone; they see the wrongness in the laws and try to do what they think is morally right. Martin Luther King Jr. is an example of a person who had these thoughts.
What I got from this article is that there may be laws, but moral will trump it most of the time. People will fight for the laws of the gods and people will fight for what they believe in.