Role Of Heroism In Antigone

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” Through our discussion of heroism, we have encountered heroes who were born great, much like the beloved Achilles. At birth, Achilles was given twin destinies one which destined him for eternal greatness, the one he ultimately chose. Yet even Achilles had to make a choice about being a hero or living a long happy life. We met Odysseus, who achieved greatness through his cunning and willingness to be whatever the situation called for. In our most unlikely hero, Antigone, we saw her become a hero because of the situation thrust upon her, when she stood for what she believed to be just even though it cost her life. No one hero becomes a hero the same way, but there is one commonality. They were not born heroes, but they became heroes.
In The Crito, Socrates, a philosopher, likens himself to the hero Achilles. He views his willingness to die for the preservation of justice to …show more content…
His noble lie suggests that every individual is born with a certain metal in his or her soul, which designates to which class a person belongs. This happens because the earth is the mother of everyone, and therefore no one can argue with what is in their soul, since all are born of the earth. There is nothing wrong with any class; there are just places the soul belongs. Those with gold in their souls are the ruling class. Those with silver in their souls are to be the soldiers or warrior class, and those with iron and bronze as farmers and craftsmen. The ruling class, necessarily for a just society, is made up of philosophers. A very specific few are able to rule and be philosophers and seek the idea of the good. Yet Socrates himself insists that this is a lie to ensure a city based in