Unwritten Law

such pure character cannot withstand the grind from reality. The tragedy is always flawed, it is unreal and imperfect, but it is more realistic. In Antigone, the tragedy has become an absolute fate which Antigone must violate the law whether it is natural law or human law. After King Oedipus died, his two sons are fighting for the kingship. Eteocles leads the citizens of Thebe defending the attack from Polynices who is leading the enemy state. The two sons die at the same day at this war.…

obligation to one’s people and one’s family must be balanced in order to achieve harmony. This is best seen in Sophocles’ Antigone, where Antigone is the yin with a fatal commitment to her brother and Creon is the yang with a staunch resolve to uphold the laws of his kingdom. Both these characters are lacking a crucial element of the other, and consequently reach a tragic end. However due to Creon’s conviction throughout and responsibility, his guilt and moment of catharsis ultimately makes him…

place in the early twentieth century. During this period, an individual experienced subjective and existential conditions that impacted their human culture and politics. Before this time, the world operated on a rational system, that was governed by law and stood as a representation of reality. When this period came into play, questioning or rejection of tradition was common and life focused on prioritizing individualism, freedom, and formal equality. Life’s theory was no longer based on…

Sophocles, the Greek author of Antigone, used his work to relay messages about the many issues implanted within society. In his play Antigone, the tragic heroine faces the consequences of defying the law. She goes against her uncle, the king, and questions his authorities. Throughout the text, the reader is exposed to many different situations in which Antigone tries to justify and defend what she did. In the play Antigone, Sophocles uses the characters and the plot to show the consequences of…

notions of law, law of man and law of the divine. Though there are opinions as to which of the two is the most powerful, the text supports the divine law as being the most influential law in the characters’ lives. Consequences the character’s face when disobeying the divines will and the faith they have in divine law all make clear that divine law is the supreme form of law in this text. Divine law is what many of the citizen’s feel is the most significant law, the law they feel…

When any decision is made the most important factor determining its conclusion is its justice. This justice is what is of question when concluding its accuracy, whether it is moral or just another human-made law. There are many writers thought history and from those Sophocles, Martin Luther King and Immanuel Kant will be discussed upon. These writers offered various conclusions upon what is the just and the unjust. In Kant’s works he basically emphasized that the consequences of a specific…

a solicitation for data or is consequently created in light of Internet quests." Preceding this change, the tenet forced no exemptions for data gave by an attorney or firm upon the solicitation of a potential customer. It was something of an "unwritten standard" that these…

Parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament’s power is unlimited and it can make law on any subject matter. No one can limit the law - making power of any future Parliament. It is impossible therefore for any Parliament to pass a permanent law or in other words to entrench an Act of Parliament. According to Dicey, parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament has the “right to make or unmake any law whatever”. This basically means that there is no limit on the subject matter on which…

Section 25.3 and 25.4 of the C.C.C. protects the identity of officers in annual reports for their safety (Greenspan, Rosenberg, & Henein, 2016, pp. 42-43). Public. The role of peace officers is to protect the safety of society, while upholding an unwritten officer-community social contract (Ariel, B. et al., 2015, p. 512). It is of the utmost priority that society is always protected, which is covered under sections 25, 27, and 28 of the C.C.C. (Greenspan et al.,2016, C/1). Although peace…

international criminal law and for a genuine international criminal law to emerge which goes beyond the sovereignty of individual states. The basic meaning of International Humanitarian Law is derived from the idea of rules that seek to limit the effect of armed conflict, for humanitarian reasons. It seeks to protect people who are not participants in the hostilities and also restricts the means and methods of warfare. International humanitarian law is also known as ‘The law of war or the law of…