The backgrounds of the Antigone and Martin Luther King’s letter are very different. Antigone takes place in Ancient Greece, while Martin Luther King’s letter was written in the twentieth century. However, both main figures of the writings strongly disagree with the “unjust” laws, showing a slight similarity. In Antigone, the speaker, Antigone, is an enemy and disgrace of the audience, the citizens. She claims that burying her “outlaw” brother is not breaking the law. Antigone emotionally appeals to the crowd by saying “..my own mother’s son to rot, an unburied corpse-...”. She logically explains her claim by saying that the tradition of leaving an enemy unburied is a great unwritten tradition. I imagine her saying this while mourning for