Moral Law Vs. Civil Law In Antigone
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Emily Snyder
In the case of Antigone versus the state, she chose to follow moral
law, or God's law if you will. Ultimately she felt that His law was right,
and the civil government had no right to say who does and who does not
have the right to a proper burial. People make decisions everyday in
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.... for Antigone. They say it isn't equitable that she
must die." God spoke to her and she acted upon the support of a loved one.
She did what she did knowing would smile upon her and the dead would
welcome her.
Creon is what the civil law is. Polynices, the unburied, brother
of Antigone, fought against Thebes, making him undeserving of a grave
according to Creon. All that Polynices was doing was following his own
morals. He believed in the other side, whatever that may have been, and
he g ....
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