Maintaining or practicing resistance in a developing fascist country populated by nationalist sure is difficult. Thomas Carter’s film, Swing Kids, shows teenager Peter attempt to maintain internal battle of resistance of the Nazi regime. In Sophocles Greek tragedy, Antigone, Antigone shows her resistance by defiling the ruling of the developing dictator of Thebes Creon. Although the two’s situations differed in many ways, their common actions in rebelling from dictatorship while surrounded by pressuring nationalists, in the end proved a positive outcome. Antigone and Peter both have many differences in their situations. Antigone is conflicted with the king of Thebes, Creon’s, decision to ban the burial of one of Antigone’s brothers, Polyneices. …show more content…
In giving her brother a proper burial, Antigone is disobeying the power hungry king Creon. Creon is a self involved king that works more to maintian his pride and respect rather than protecting a serving his citizens. Antigone knows it’s dangerous to go against Creon and in doing so will more likley result in her execution. Peter faces similar dangers. Peter reconizes the murderous and monsterous nature of the rising Nazi regime. Throughout the film it grows more and more obvious that harm and death comes to those who criticize the Nazi’s. For those who reconize the atrocities of the Nazi’s, they often are taken from their homes, sent to work camps, forced into the army, tortured, or even killed. At one point Peter even finds himself delivering the ashes of fathers who have objected to the Nazi presence to their families. Throughout the film Peter faces an internal struggle of whether to join the savagery of the Nazis and be safer or to continue to oppose them and risk death. In the end Peter finds that the fear emmited by the Nazis is not enough to subject himself to join and support their regime even though this could easily catalyze his death. Antigone and Peter also commonly share the desire to oppose the dictator force oppressing them whereas nearly all other citizens have to some degree have