Current Events: Antigone

In the Antigone, Antigone is caught between two conflicting duties, her religious duty as a sister to bury her brother and her duty to the polis (city) to obey its laws. We humans face such double binds often in our lives.

Submit a post on your blog using "PHIL083: Assignemnts" tag that includes a reference to an example in contemporary society of the sort of double bind in which Antigone finds herself. You may link to news articles, podcasts, blogs, images, or anything else you can locate on the web that illustrates the way people in today’s society handle such double binds.

You must:

• Submit a functioning link to your example
  
• Briefly summarize the content of your example
  
• Explain the reasons why you think the example is analogous to Antigone’s situation.
  
• Include an original idea of your own: your own analysis, a way of interpreting the example, a critical judgment about an aspect of the example, etc. How effective was the person’s response to this conflict?
  

• The post is submitted on time under the proper tag and includes a functioning link to the example—5 points.
  
• The summary is effective, brief, complete and written clearly—5 points.
  
• The example is germane to the question—5 points.
  
• There is an original idea—5 points.