Antigone's and Socrates' find themselves in situations with a lot of contrasting, yet overlapping moral questions. Both upset the powers in charged of their communities and both are willing to die for their beliefs. However, the details of each of their journeys have many differences.
Humans can hold multiple moral ideas and when situations arise to cause these ideals to overlap in a conflicting manner, everyone has to decide for themselves what is the best moral resolution. Every individual has to balance for themselves when, if ever, an immoral act is acceptable or if there are reason for an act once thought immoral to no longer be immoral.
Both Antigone and Socrates are examples of threat to the political order of their societies. Antigone does this by challenging the orders of the city's new ruler in name of her dead brother and her religious beliefs which states that he should be …show more content…
In Sophocles' play "Antigone”, the ideas of obeying the law of one’s community and following ones own moral beliefs come into conflict. The plot starts with two brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices having killed each other in an attempted to gain rule and their Uncle Creon gaining power after their deaths. He orders one brother, Eteocles, given an honorable funeral and the other, Polyneices, to be left in the streets to rot.
Although refusing or taking an action, even though harm you because you wish to do what is right is a good thing in itself, that does not mean the action itself is inarguably good.
The lesson I learn from "Antigone" is that you have to be ready to accept the consequences of your convictions. Not only is she loyal to her brother and her religious beliefs, brave when confronted with danger and death, but she accepts the consequence (death) before she ever acts. The fact that she is so rational in the face of such an emotional ordeal is