Soul versus State
Today, morality and patriotism have been carelessly tossed into the melting pot of American nationalism. They are now melding together into an ambiguous form, something completely different then their original purpose. We find ourselves confused at the crossroads, unsure of whether to follow our own ideology or that of our government. This perplexity of personal authority has plagued the world for ages, and has become a major theme of mankind's existence. Sophocles explored the internal battle between individual ethics and submission to the government through Antigone, in which he revered human principles and condemned the government mandates that hinder them.
Greece was quite possibly the cradle of organized government as we know it. Sophocles' time was a momentous one. Revolutionaries such as Solon and Cleisthenes hammered through constitutions that would not only shape Greece but greatly influence the world. Yet as the governmental flower was......
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