The conflict between the laws of the state and the laws of indivdual consciene is a hard decision to face. However, both characters in, Antigone by Sophocles and Sarah’s Key by Tatiana DeRosnay come face to face with this difficult desicion. The charcters experience similar situations of facing against injustices. Similar to Antigone, Sarah is forbidden to see her brother, but is wiling to do anything to see him and goes against unfair laws put in place. These similar concpets connects the two stories in several ways.
Initially, in Antigone and Sarah’s key, a law seen a unfair is issued in order to prohibit the characters from doing certain things. This is where the conflict of going against the law to do what you …show more content…
Sarah locked her brother in a cupboard to keep him safe from the police. She hols the key to the cupcoard and promises that she will return. Before she leaves she tells her brother, “I’ll come back for you later.I promise!” That is why she is so determined to escape the incarsrartion camps and return to paris to unlock the door for her brother. Also,Antigone is determined to give her brother a proper bariul, which Creon has frobidden. She exclaims, “I shall lie down
With him in death, and I shall be as dearTo him as he to me.” (pg 4). Antigone and Sarah are both willing to risk their lives for the skae of their broher. They ignore the cnosequnces they may face and follow their own moral code.
In conclusion, in “Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana de Rosnary and “Antigone” by Sophoclethe characters face similar siuations.In both stories laws are put in place that are seen as injustice and the characters disobey these laws to do what they feel is morally right and gain jusitce for their brothers. Throughout the story, both Sarah and Antigone decided that the laws of their individual consceine trumps the law of the
Initially, in Antigone and Sarah’s key, a law seen a unfair is issued in order to prohibit the characters from doing certain things. This is where the conflict of going against the law to do what you …show more content…
Sarah locked her brother in a cupboard to keep him safe from the police. She hols the key to the cupcoard and promises that she will return. Before she leaves she tells her brother, “I’ll come back for you later.I promise!” That is why she is so determined to escape the incarsrartion camps and return to paris to unlock the door for her brother. Also,Antigone is determined to give her brother a proper bariul, which Creon has frobidden. She exclaims, “I shall lie down
With him in death, and I shall be as dearTo him as he to me.” (pg 4). Antigone and Sarah are both willing to risk their lives for the skae of their broher. They ignore the cnosequnces they may face and follow their own moral code.
In conclusion, in “Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana de Rosnary and “Antigone” by Sophoclethe characters face similar siuations.In both stories laws are put in place that are seen as injustice and the characters disobey these laws to do what they feel is morally right and gain jusitce for their brothers. Throughout the story, both Sarah and Antigone decided that the laws of their individual consceine trumps the law of the