To Be Someone
People are born to make changes in the world. Consequently, a play “Antigone” by Sophocles introduce the questioning results and flaws of how a girl, Antigone, took great steps in accomplishing what she believes in. Such strengths to stand firm and take action against an injustice order from her uncle, King Creon, for her dead brother, Polyneices. Antigone proves that the punishment to die for burying her brother does not frighten her. It will not even make her sway in what she believes is the right act for her brother. In essences, she buried her brother with great honor knowing she has done a righteous deed by dying. The elaboration of the confident acts, words, and actions engulfs the principle of how people are raised leverage their behaviors when they are grown up. …show more content…
Antigone marks the culture of a burial ceremony as an importance to please the gods. As she got caught burying her brother, but she divulges, “If I had left my brother lying in death unburied, I should have suffered. Now I do not.” (370). Her culture is embedded eminently close to her heart. Preaching such a strong feeling towards her culture she must have been raised to love and taught that her culture is crucial. And that standing up for it does not mean to seek death but to honor the justices that have been done. Similarly, my culture upholds it name by doing rituals for health issues if we are not well. We have a faith that if someone is unwell than that person's soul or spirit is lost outside of the body. So we would go to a shaman and then hold a ceremony in the sick person’s house with lots of friends and family to welcome back and pray for the well being of the sick person. These ceremonies are repeated and seen many times by children that are brought along to join the events. Although it is also just
People are born to make changes in the world. Consequently, a play “Antigone” by Sophocles introduce the questioning results and flaws of how a girl, Antigone, took great steps in accomplishing what she believes in. Such strengths to stand firm and take action against an injustice order from her uncle, King Creon, for her dead brother, Polyneices. Antigone proves that the punishment to die for burying her brother does not frighten her. It will not even make her sway in what she believes is the right act for her brother. In essences, she buried her brother with great honor knowing she has done a righteous deed by dying. The elaboration of the confident acts, words, and actions engulfs the principle of how people are raised leverage their behaviors when they are grown up. …show more content…
Antigone marks the culture of a burial ceremony as an importance to please the gods. As she got caught burying her brother, but she divulges, “If I had left my brother lying in death unburied, I should have suffered. Now I do not.” (370). Her culture is embedded eminently close to her heart. Preaching such a strong feeling towards her culture she must have been raised to love and taught that her culture is crucial. And that standing up for it does not mean to seek death but to honor the justices that have been done. Similarly, my culture upholds it name by doing rituals for health issues if we are not well. We have a faith that if someone is unwell than that person's soul or spirit is lost outside of the body. So we would go to a shaman and then hold a ceremony in the sick person’s house with lots of friends and family to welcome back and pray for the well being of the sick person. These ceremonies are repeated and seen many times by children that are brought along to join the events. Although it is also just