Rash Decisions In Sophocles Antigone

When faced with intense anger, passion, happiness, or pride, rash decisions are likely to be made. This can happen to anyone and has been seen throughout history. In Antigone by Sophocles, many characters made rash decisions that can parallel my own life and rash decisions that have been made within it. One situation I have seen where a rash decision was made, causing an outcome was not necessary. Walking upstairs into my kitchen one morning, while getting ready for what seemed to be a normal day during my junior year of highschool, a war broke out. My mother and older sister (Lili) had gotten in a fight about chores my mother had sprung up on Lili and expected her to finish before school. Lili, instead of taking a moment to breathe and

My older sister, Lili, and I were home alone one night and I was speaking on the phone with my grandmother about a pair of Timberland boots that I wanted for Christmas. My older sister had overheard this discussion and asked to see the boots I picked out. Coincidentally, they were the same boots she wanted. All of the sudden, I was in the middle of an all out brawl over a pair of boots. Lili began to scream at me at the top of her lungs and unplugged the home phone so I couldn’t grab it to call my dad to complain about her. I was stuck on my living room couch with her above me, coming closer and closer to hitting me because I did not feel any need to stop talking back to her as I found the situation ridiculous. I brought out my own phone and threatened to call my father and she backed off from me, heading downstairs to her room. I followed behind her, angry that she acted the way she did towards me over boots, and frustrated that she had so much power over me. I saw my chance to finally prove that I also had power, grabbed a desk chair, and hit her with it from behind. I then proceeded to punch her in the stomach and jaw and running upstairs so she could not immediately retaliate. My older sister and I did not talk for almost a week after that incident, and I was grounded for some time too. If I let my older sister walk into her room without attacking her out of nowhere, I would have not been put in such a