Struggling with god's law and man's law has always been a recurring issue throughout mankind. In the play Antigone by Sophocles man’s and god's laws also reappears throughout the story. The two types of laws are very different, god’s law depends on faith and man's law can be set by a democracy or a monarchy. Whether one believes in god’s law or man’s these laws keep civil order and peace, but that does not mean that these laws cannot create moral conflict every now and then. In the play Antigone written by Sophocles, the author demonstrates Kohlberg’s moral hierarchy scale by using man’s law, god’s law and the characters in the story. Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus who was the former king of Thebes. Her brother Polyneices has recently
