Theme Of Morality In Antigone

Although to some people, morality might seem like the best option, one person’s morality isn’t usually the same to everyone else’s. Laws are set to be right and just to every person regardless of their different morality.. In Antigone, King Kreon had a different idea as to what should be done with Polyneices’ body and Antigone, his son and the people of Thebes had told him to follow the laws of the God’s. When King Kreon decides to disobey the laws the gods have set, he lost his family and learned that following laws is more important than his personal morality. Even those who decide to go against law and believe more in their personal morality are punished nowadays, that’s why prisons exist. Laws are also set to be applied equally to everyone,
and with everyone in mind. Nobody can easily get away with not following laws, for they apply to everybody and everyone is expected to follow them. Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience describes his arrest for not paying toll tax after not living in a city for six years. Thoreau refused to pay a tax that everyone in the city is required to pay, and when the tax collector realized that, Thoreau was jailed. The Government and the laws it sets might not be something everyone agrees over, but they are set to establish a fair, just, and equal to every citizen.