In The Time Of The Butterflies And Antigone Essay

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Have you ever felt so strongly about something, that you would do anything to fight for it or to prove your point. Many laws and or rules conflict with others beliefs and morals. A moral is defined as, “a person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do” (dictionary.com). Human beings have the obligation to be disobedient when laws go against their moral conscience. This action is displayed in many works of literature, such as “Antigone”, and In the Time of the Butterflies. In Sophocles play “Antigone”, Antigone strongly disagrees with King Creon's decree to not bury Polyneices. She believes in the laws of god much more over the king's laws. Therefore, Antigone disobeys the king’s law and decides that it is her duty to bury Polyneices: “ But I will bury him; and if I must die,/I say that this crime is holy: I shall lie down/With him in death” (Sophocles 55-57). …show more content…

Antigone decided that she had to bury her brother, even if it meant that she would be killed for it. Her morals were so strong that she would virtually do anything to bury Polyneices even though the King’s law forbids it. In Julia Alvarez’s novel In the Time of the Butterflies, Minerva Mirabal takes part in many daring things to fight against Trujillo- a dictator in the Dominican Republic. Trujillo is very powerful and has killed many people so all of the actions that Minerva takes part in are extremely dangerous. Minerva begins to fight against Trujillo by sneaking out of school and going to Don Horacio’s house where secret meetings were being held to discuss the actions of trujillo.Minerva knows that this is extremely dangerous and is putting her life on the line whenever she takes part in disagreeing with trujillo’s ways. However, she does it because she feels it is the right thing to

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