Civil Disobedience Civil Disobedience, it has been around sense the time that man first walked on the earth. Some examples of disobedience are, in the Greek play Antigone and there are many more like the Rosa Parks incident and even I have some civil disobedience sometimes but that is the way that human nature works.
In the Greek play Antigone, Antigone finds out that here two brothers have killed each other in a war between Thebes and Argos. Their names were Polyneices and Eteocles. King Creon had ordered that one was to be buried with full military honors and Antigone thinks that this is wrong and says "Creon is not strong enough to stand in my way"� (Antigone 1023). She means even with the law she is still going to give her brother a proper burial. The brother that was honored was Eteocles, and Antigone thinks that this is wrong and both brothers should be honored.
Cadmus Sowing the Dragon's teeth, by Maxfield Parr...
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English: Heads side of the Rosa Parks Congressiona...She also thinks that Creons law is immoral and that there are higher laws than his. "His own brother, traitor or not, and equal in blood. He made war on his country. Eteocles defended it. Nevertheless, there are honors dew all the dead"� (Scene 2 lines 111-113).
There has been a lot of civil disobedience in history and in current events. One of the most famous historical civil disobedience events is when Rosa Parks was sitting on a bus and wouldn't move for no one, and the bus driver said "Well, I'm going to have you arrested"� and she said "You may go on and do so."� (Time 166). After this happened the black community in Montgomery sent out a message and it said "We are "æasking every Negro to stay off the buses Monday in protest of the arrest and trial...