The Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles is about a women named Antigone who repels …show more content…
She is willing to risk her own life to rebel against Creon’s law and guarantee that his unjust decisions will be overthrown. Antigone illustrates her frustration and determination when she says, “It’s not for him to keep me from my own” (Sophocles, 48). Antigone when she states that she will never be disloyal to her brother, she emphasizes her faithfulness to her family and what she believes to be moral and immoral. Despite the troubles she went through for the benefit of one person, Antigone will do anything to guarantee them just and proper treatment, even if it means violating the law of …show more content…
Martin Luther King Jr. encountered a different opposition, which involved changing the entire country’s views. King peacefully protests racial oppression and segregation in the United States to assist a whole country rather than a single individual. He observes civil disobedience as a way of protest on unjust laws of the country, rather than protesting a law regarding a singular person’s unfair treatment. King backs his approach on civil disobedience by illustrating his four steps, which are “the collection of the facts to determine whether injustices are alive, negotiation, self-purification, and direct action” (King, 1). With every one of his beliefs and acts, King defends himself by indicating how unjust the laws have treated the African Americans of the nation. He expresses that “Negroes who, as a result of long years of oppression, have been so completely drained of self-respect and a sense of “somebodyness” that they have adjusted to segregation, and have unconsciously become insensitive to the problems of the masses” (King, 4). King, in a way, is breaking the law in order to become the voice for the people who have been “socially deprived” of their freedom, contrary to Antigone’s aim to protect the rights of her