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Antigone 7

Would you ever dare to disobey the law and risk your life for it just so you could do what you thought was right? In the play Antigone, the main character Antigone, had her actions rewarded by death. She had disobeyed the law made by Creon (the king) and therefore had to be punished. It seems as if she made her actions just so people would think of her as a heroine. What kind of evidence would make people think of her as a heroine or a good role model? The fact that she purposely disobeyed the law because she felt it was the right thing to do. And also because she did not deny her actions or go against her punishment. People might say that she should be admired because she stood up ...

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out of trouble nor blame her accused actions on someone else. I think that this would show and tell people not to be afraid to say or do what you think is right. Antigone would be a good role model for many people. She wanted to do the right thing for her dead brother. Yet her idea of the right thing to do didn't agree with some people such as Creon. She didn't care about anything else except to do the proper thing, giving her brother a proper burial. She wanted to do the unthinkable- to go and disobey a law that had just been recently made. People should know and learn that they too can change things that seem to be unchangeable if they believe that is the right thing to do, even if the results are death. She even knew the consequences of her actions and yet ignored them. Antigone even accepted her death when Creon found her guilty.
Antigone.
I knew I must die, even without your decree;
Living, as I live, with evil all about me,
Think death ...

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Added: 12/9/2008 10:06:12 PM
Category: English
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