Antigone Neil Perry Analysis

Each of the stories demonstrated tragedy and persistence. In the book Antigone, Antigone showed great bravado and persistence, because she went beyond the rules that were given to the town to bury Polynices. She knew that by doing this her life would be in danger, but she never backed down. Antigone was portrayed as a strong and persistent woman. Antigone had to be stronger because during this time women had no say or power, in the end she ended up dying for what she believed in while defying law. In The Dead Poet Society Neil Perry is very similar to Antigone because they both stood up for what they believed in. Neil was given instruct orders by his father to not do the play, but still choose to so. Neil could not stand up to his father, but is still persistent to do what he wants. How are the two conflicts similar and what makes them different? Antigone and Neil both have a mission or thing that they have to do, but authority stop them. Neil was weak which is why who could never stand up to his father and tell him how he really feels. In the movie Neil has a fight with …show more content…
The poem is try to get the person to try to not to shy away from anything. I think that the poem speaks more to Neil, because it telling him he should follow and do what he think is right. This is something that Mr. Keating was trying to tell Neil. The poem also sends the message to not follow in what society might think is right but what you think is right. Mr. Keating tells his student this when they were marching. He wanted to try to get the kids to try not to follow in what society is doing and to do their own thing, just as one of the kids try to do. He decided that because they were all marching the same he should march differently. Mr. Keating taught a lesson to the kids which was to be independent and come up with their own ideas instead of following someone