Writing
Writing about Moral Choices
Sophocles regales his Grecian audiences with his tale of Antigone and her struggle against Creon. As we've seen in the first reading of Antigone, the title character refuses to compromise her belief that Creon and his DECREE (law) that Polyneices should remain unburied violate a higher law, a divine law. Her willingness to break a civil law and sacrifice her life (penalty is stoning to death) provides readers with a character possessed of great strength and power, filled with will and spirit. Most of us are probably unwilling to take such risks or make such sacrifices, although the example of characters such as Antigone may infuse our characters with a jolt of spirit, confidence, pride, so that we might not cower the next time we're faced with an injustice.
Assignment: Write about a personal experience where you were willing to sacrifice something (object, time, freedom, popularity, friendship, etc.) in order to avoid compromising your personal principles or beliefs. Write as if you're telling the reader a story, an autobiographical narrative, including the appropriate details, words, and actions of all involved.
Follow these steps from the online textbook (p. 66-73) linked here.
Click here for an Example Opening.
Submit this assignment on the Antigone Honors Lesson 1 Assignment Sheet.
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Writing about Moral Choices
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Sophocles regales his Grecian audiences with his tale of Antigone and her struggle against Creon. As we've seen in the first reading of Antigone, the title character refuses to compromise her belief that Creon and his DECREE (law) that Polyneices should remain unburied violate a higher law, a divine law. Her willingness to break a civil law and sacrifice her life (penalty is stoning to death) provides readers with a character possessed of great strength and power, filled with will and spirit. Most of us are probably unwilling to take such risks or make such sacrifices, although the example of characters such as Antigone may infuse our characters with a jolt of spirit, confidence, pride, so that we might not cower the next time we're faced with an injustice.
Assignment: Write about a personal experience where you were willing to sacrifice something (object, time, freedom, popularity, friendship, etc.) in order to avoid compromising your personal principles or beliefs. Write as if you're telling the reader a story, an autobiographical narrative, including the appropriate details, words, and actions of all involved.Follow these steps from the online textbook (p. 66-73) linked here.
Click here for an Example Opening.
Submit this assignment on the Antigone Honors Lesson 1 Assignment Sheet.
NEXT: Language Study--Greek Roots
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