A conscientious objector is defined as a person standing up for what they believe to be right. A person in the real world, like Rosa Parks, or a character from a play, such as Antigone, can be conscientious objectors. Antigone and Rosa Parks both fit the description of a conscientious objector. The reason why they fit into the description is because both women had the courage to do what they thought was right. In the play Antigone by Sophocles, the character Antigone can be described as a conscientious objector. An example in the play that shows her righteousness would be when Antigone buried Polyneices, her brother, even though Creon had made a decree saying “no one shall bury him”(Sophocles 688). Creon prohibited anyone from burying Polyneices because he betrayed his people by attacking them. Polyneices’ brother, Eteocles, is considered a hero for dying for his people, so that they were protected. Since Eteocles died as a brave hero, Creon buried him “with military honors”(688) and “gave him a soldier's funeral…”(Sophocles 688). Therefore meaning that Polyneices did not receive a funeral. Antigone was filled with anger and believed that leaving Polyneices out on a field for carrion birds to …show more content…
She is famously known for refusing “to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger…”(biography). Parks says she did not refuse because she was physically tired, but “she was tired of giving in”(biography). She no longer wanted to be pushed around because she was an African American.Her arrest caused outraged and led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which is known to be the first demonstration against segregation in the United States. The purpose of the boycott was to protest against segregated seating in city buses. The boycott only lasted for three hundred eighty-one days and it was the reason why the Civil Rights Movement