Antigone By Martin Luther King Analysis
Title: Divine Law .vs. Temporal Law
Intro: In a world where many religions are constantly practice which law should we follow? As time goes on laws change and new religions are found,so what happens when temporal law is conflicted with divine law? Here, in the story, ‘Antigone’, that is the conflict of this story. We look at this play though the theories in Martin Luther King’s “Letters from a Birmingham Jail” which talks about the four key facts to civil disobedience:unjust law,negotiation,self-purification and direct action.
Summary: In the play “Antigone” written by Sophocles, Antigone is the daughter of the damned fool, Oedipus. With Oedipus now dead,it was appointed the his two son’s Eteocles and Polyneices to rule the kingdom from year to year. When the first year was over Eteocles,the elder son,refused to step down from his kingship. Thus began a war between the two brothers which resulted in both of their deaths. With the two brothers being dead, the crown was appointed to Creon,a worldly,non-religious man who grants Eteocles an honorable burial but leaves Polynices to rot and makes an edict to leave his remains or be sentenced to death. Antigone,being the heavily religious sister of the two princes disagree …show more content…
“Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation”(Letter from a Birmingham Jail paragraph 7). Though this situation is different from the situation Antigone faces,they are both under the same category of an unjust law. “A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law”(Letter from a birmingham Jail parar 16). This battle between divine law and worldly law is what really connects Antigone to Dr.King’s
Intro: In a world where many religions are constantly practice which law should we follow? As time goes on laws change and new religions are found,so what happens when temporal law is conflicted with divine law? Here, in the story, ‘Antigone’, that is the conflict of this story. We look at this play though the theories in Martin Luther King’s “Letters from a Birmingham Jail” which talks about the four key facts to civil disobedience:unjust law,negotiation,self-purification and direct action.
Summary: In the play “Antigone” written by Sophocles, Antigone is the daughter of the damned fool, Oedipus. With Oedipus now dead,it was appointed the his two son’s Eteocles and Polyneices to rule the kingdom from year to year. When the first year was over Eteocles,the elder son,refused to step down from his kingship. Thus began a war between the two brothers which resulted in both of their deaths. With the two brothers being dead, the crown was appointed to Creon,a worldly,non-religious man who grants Eteocles an honorable burial but leaves Polynices to rot and makes an edict to leave his remains or be sentenced to death. Antigone,being the heavily religious sister of the two princes disagree …show more content…
“Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation”(Letter from a Birmingham Jail paragraph 7). Though this situation is different from the situation Antigone faces,they are both under the same category of an unjust law. “A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law”(Letter from a birmingham Jail parar 16). This battle between divine law and worldly law is what really connects Antigone to Dr.King’s