Antigone Push The Button Essay

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One would assume that Antigone wouldn’t not push the button in the Stanley Milgram experiment. The experiment was about an authority telling the “teacher” to ask a series questions that would be answered by the “learner”. When the “learner” got the question wrong or did not answer they were shocked. If the “teacher” was to ask all the question the voltage would be up to 450 volts and the voltage was started at 15 and moved up ever time the questions is not answer or answers it wrong. In the experiment Antigone would ask the questions to the learner and would push the button to shock them. Also Antigone was a girl that loved her family and would follow what she thinks is right before following the law of authority. The play is a Greek tragedy that is about a young girl that did everything she could to bury her brother. Although some people say that Antigone would push the button in a certain situation, I disagree because of her beliefs, morals and honor. …show more content…

For example, “Antigone identifies her devotion to a reverence for an eternal, unwritten law” (McNeil 415). This is important because it explains how she believes in her “unwritten law,” meaning after her death how she would be viewed by the god she worshiped. Also, in the article, written by David McNeill, Antigone Autonomy it states how she was “guided” by “the laws of gods that demanded burial for the beloved dead” (McNeill 413).This evidence shows how Antigone was influenced by the gods, and what they believed was right. If Antigone was put up to the test, one would naturally assume that she would also be “guided” by what she thinks is right. Therefore “Antigone has been held up as a hero of conscience, who holds fast to her own beliefs, to her own sense of what is right, of what must be done” (McNeill 414). This shows how Antigone “holds” up her own believes and “sense” of

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