Unwritten Law

characters, Creon and Antigone. Creon, the straightforward lawmaker, sides with the law of states and fate to be the only path worth following. While Antigone, the free willed heroine, sides with divine law, letting her free will decide her fate. Both sides do have positive lights to shine on their ideals, but Creon’s over zealous attitude towards the law is what forged his downfall. Antigone represents true justice, not by law but by natural right, and disengages true oppression in a both…

A Divine Consequence - in Antigone Divine Law vs Human Law While there is a question of whose laws are more supreme in the play Antigone, it still only comes down to one important and personal choice. The play 's message teaches us, the importance and value of choosing divine law over human law, especially when a conflict is present. It also shows us that no matter what choice of law we choose to obey, sometimes the consequences in the end will be tragic. So we should always…

history, involving governments, more often than not, take inspiration from previous constitutions, laws, or decrees. This influence is seen in the similarities between the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights. Documents such as these list the people of a certainty regions rules and regulations for life. “We have also granted to all freeman of our kingdom, for us and our heirs, forever, all the unwritten liberties, to be enjoyed and held by them and their heirs, from us and our heirs,” (Magna…

Laws are very important in any society. They are used to maintain order and without them there would be chaos and anarchy. In the well-known Greek play by Sophocles, Antigone, there is a clash between state and natural laws. The play poses the question To whom does a person owe the ultimate loyalty, the state or the natural law and can hubris affect or distort these perspectives. Can such hubris blind a person to other familial duties. While Creon argues that the gods do not celebrate traitors…

customs, laws, both common and natural, and precedents blending ideas from their mother country, classical Republicanism, European Enlightenment, and Protestant…

Zeus did not announce those laws to me.”(line 509) , stated Antigone, she follows the natural law of the gods not the laws of the man. Antigone’s ideas contrasts from creon’s , creon develops into a tragic hero because of her actions, and she advances the plot. Antigone’s words, actions, and ideas contrast with creon’s character because Antigone doesn’t follow the law of man she obeys the gods natural law. “And justice living with the gods below sent no such laws for men.”(line 510 ) , she…

fundamental difference is perhaps the fact that the two philosophers were making considerations of the law in two fundamentally different times, in history. Modern jurisprudence has had several differences about how the law was perceived to be in the past. While human beings recognise social institutions such as parliament and constitutional review bodies as sources of law, other sources of law exist that intrinsically influence the legal processes and the outcome of legal disputes. These…

Law enforcement have several different levels from local, military, and federal. No matter which level of law enforcement is achieved an officer or agent has ethics that must be up held. However, the police subculture may contend the high standards that are viewed by the public. Therefore, law enforcement deviance whether accepted in police subculture or not is wrong. Law enforcement officers have a large amount of discretion while preforming their duties, the officers’ integrity must be…

Is it just to break an unjust law? It is just to break an unjust law if it is morally wrong. Doing it in your own belief demonstrates the power behind the act to break an unjust law. Laws that may be appealing to the government might not be appealing to people who oppose them. Doing what's morally right is better than following an unjust law. Standing up to unjust laws shows moxie. I support breaking an unjust law because it takes real guts to actually do it. Three examples of this can be…

Later the BC and north territory joined, they got totally 24 seats. Their job is to help the House of Commons to make laws and monitor how it works. （During the Quebec Conference of 1864, which set out the future structure of Canadian political system, John A. MacDonald, then attorney general and not yet a Sir, observed, “In order to protect local interest, and to prevent…