Is this crime? Death?- she should have all the honor we can giver her!” Haemon is trying to tell his father that Antigone is innocent and that she committed no crime. It was a simple act of loyalty to her family. Even though King Creon set the law that polynieces should not be buried, due to his act of intrusion, Antigone didn’t want his soul to left here on earth, she wanted polynieces soul to have a safe trip to heaven. “In flood time you can see how some trees bend, and because they bend, even their twigs are safe.
Worth Dying For Life is a precious gift given to humankind by God. It leads to friendship, family, love and even more. Although life combines tragedy and splendor it is entirely worth living and no other human has the right to determine whether you live or die. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Reverend Hale tells Elizabeth Proctor “ No principle however glorious is worth dying for.” His argument that it is better to give false confession than to die for a principle of belief is incorrect. Throughout history there has been countless number of people who have died for giving the truth other than denying their belief.
(page 35-36) Differences: Antigone belives in following the god wishes, while Creon follows the the rule of the city Antigone: "The sacared laws that heaven holds in honour." (page 5) "Was I so stand before the gods' tribunal for disobeying them, because I feared a man? "(page 17) Creon: "lawful authority must be obeyed in all things, great of small"(page 24) Antiogne puts her family over everything while Creon puts his city over everything. Antigone: "And if I Have to die for this pure crime, I am content, for I shall rest beside him" (page 5) "Father, and you, my mother; you, my brother. For when you died it was my hands that washed and dressed you, laid you in your graves, and poured the Last libations."
Antigone Response To the governing council of Thebes: Here in Thebes, the gods grant intelligence in humans, giving our king, Kreon, the power to rule over our lands. With this intelligence, we are also given the ability to make choices in every aspect of life. However, humans still make mistakes and sometimes cannot see their own faults. Kreon pronounced that the solider Polyneices was to have no ritual, no mourners, and that anyone who defied this declaration would pay the price: death. Antigone, brother of Polyneices, chose to disobey this law and buried her brother in spite of the king’s law.
Cultural relativism Denise Lewis ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (GSF1517D) Instructor: Fae Goodman Date Submitted The comprehension of a different culture practices tends to be difficult when only used in comparison to one’s own culture and practices. It may seem not normal for one’s own standards yet to those of the opposite cultures our own practices may not be considered as normal or logical to them as well. In order to be able to understand any culture, one must really know the meaning of cultural relativism. “Cultural relativism is the idea that the significance of an act is best understood by the standards of the actor’s own culture” (Crapo, 2013). Using this definition will lay the foundation of this paper.
Lewis then goes on to say that we cannot simply do it on our own strength but to go to God for our strength. I feel like this plays a huge part in our society. With everyone around us telling us that men always think this way we feel like there is no way around it and that it is natural. But when we start saying that we don’t always think like that I think strength will come from that and we can overcome
If one says no to the other, let his wing break. “ (Narrator and Okonkwo, page 19) The oral tradition is for people to say “We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness.” after breaking a kola nut. The meaning of this is to wish for prosperity for all. This is important in the novel because when Okonkwo interferes with the Christians’ way of life at the end of the novel his “wing breaks”(he dies).
They believe that “life is the most basic gift of loving God-a gift over which we have stewardship but not absolute dominion”. Even if it is legalized in many places around the world today, there are many that are still strongly against it. Dr. Leo Alexander says that “the problem with euthanasia is the acceptance of an attitude that life is worthless, can be thrown away. That attitude is in its early stages right now, but as it progresses, so will our value of life drop. Anyone, the socially unproductive, the socially unwanted, will be considered useless; will kill off our own species, our morals.
He died loved and loving.” How could there have been a price to be paid when at the end, it was the closest they had ever been in “fifty-four years”? I agree with Susan when she was glad she did not go with euthanasia because that would’ve left her with a burden to bear. I believe she would probably start wondering about “the what ifs”; what if he actually had a chance at recovery? Even though assisted suicide might be done with good intensions, it is still taking someone’s life. Nothing has life except what God desires to live, which is why I believe the family members of the people that do choose assisted suicides/euthanasia, end up with guilt that leads to psychological traumas.
“Sucking the marrow out of life doesn’t mean choking on the bone.” This quote was told to the students in the film Dead Poets Society by Mr. Keating. In my perspective, this quote means that you should live life to the fullest and do things for yourself, but you should not go too far and take it to the point where you harm yourself, others around you, or your life. Mr. Keating expressed the idea of romanticism to his students but he also tried his best to make it clear to his students that there was a time to live life, and a time to be serious, but I think the boys may have forgotten that. Those who are unable to control their passions experience the extremities of whether it is realism or romanticism. One student of Mr. Keating’s that