Changing Society through Writing in Night and Antigone

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Changing society is hard. It takes years for it to change. Art is one of the best ways to change society. Writing is best, art form, at changing society. Night and Antigone are both very effective at changing society. While it may seem to others that Antigone is more effective at changing society because it is a tragedy, it is actually true that Night is more effective at changing society because it is shocking and it exposes major flaws in society.
Antigone is a tragedy. In the end Antigone is killed, two people commit suicide and the king goes crazy. All of this was because of the king’s pride. In Knight a fifteen year old boy is trying to survive a concentration camp. His mother and sisters are killed and he doesn’t know, and his dad is slowly dying of disease. Things are worse in Knight. In Antigone pride leads to the downfall of the king. In knight after the Jews are freed people ignored the Holocaust. People still don’t believe the Holocaust happened. In Antigone the king is punished, for his excessive pride, with the suicide of his wife and son and his own madness. The high r...

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