Exploration of Civil Disobedience in Sophocles Antigone,...

Exploration of Civil Disobedience in Sophocles Antigone, Kings Letter from Birmingham Jail, and Platos From Crito Civil disobedience spawns a major and widely debated issue by many who established by well-known intelligent scholars and many examples of civil disobedience become displayed. The acts of civil disobedience can be noted in major works such as Sophocles?s Antigone, King?s ?Letter from Birmingham Jail?, or even from Plato?s ?from Crito?. A specific claim exemplified throughout these works make that civil disobedience races in gaining popularity and should remain allowed, and continued to be seen as a solution to reform poorly established laws. A claim represented is, civil disobedience is right. Rhetorically, appeals such†¦show more content†¦The body referring to Antigone?s brother, this determination was to go against the law established by Creon. When a particular law is poorly established, someone is bound to defy it. Namely, Antigone was bound to break this law and disobey its authority. Credibility is also shown in ?from Crito?; the prisoner who taught philosophy. Plato was imprisoned because he taught philosophy to people and he is credible for not doing wrong. In King?s ?Letter from Birmingham Jail?, it is credible because it is known that Martin Luther King Jr. is a very credible person in the civil rights movement. Credibility strikes to be an important part of this claim. The logical part of the rhetorical appeals refers mainly to the specific facts as evidence. From ?Letter from Birmingham? a good logical claim, made by Martin Luther King Jr., supports and explains how his race was treated as inferior and being persecuted. He utilizes examples of how racial injustice became a huge problem. Antigone also provided facts for claims of civil disobedience and of how she was opposed to the law of leaving her brother left without a proper burial. The quotation ?After those terrible threats of yours, kings, we brushed the dust away from the body.? This quotation refers and explains how Antigone had originally buried the body and the guard had uncovered it. There isn?t much logical appeal in the work ?from Crito?.