Comparison Of 'The Apology Translated By Paul Woodruff And Plato'

This essay will briefly explain my point of view on the texts Sophocles, Antigone translated by Paul Woodruff and Plato, The Apology translated by Benjamin Jowett. Mainly focusing on when Antigone refused to obey the king 's command not to bury her brother with Socrates ' refusal to obey the Athenian court if it commands him not to engage in philosophy. I think that in actual fact Socrates and Antigone were both strong influential individuals of their time, because they had confidence in God which lead them too stand up for what was right and with all their strength never backed down from death.

Antigone, the daughter of the Late Oedipus, discovers the news of her two brothers Eteocles and Polyneices death. But what made Antigone more furious

Antigone followed the law of Zeus while Socrates focuses on the words of God. Antigone` shows us that fear means nothing once you have confidence. Her commitment was to Zeus because she knew someone as powerful as Zeus wouldn’t create a merciless law in order to prove a point as King Creon had done. You shouldn’t be in fear with your leader, because he is supposed to lead with good intentions. Antigone couldn’t consider King Creon as a leader. Which leads to Antigone in the text to say, “What laws? I never heard it was Zeus who made that announcement. “(Page19 line 450-451). Meaning she only obeys the law of Zeus, which made her confident enough to go against the law of her

Antigone fought for the right of her brother and Socrates believed that he had to prove to himself that what God had told him was correct and in order to do so he had to include others. Ismene was Antigone’s sister who pushed her away when she needed her the most. Being that is was there brother who was not buried and all she wanted was her to help give there brother the proper burial because family is what’s most in important but instead Ismene was in fear and did not want to have any attendance but that did not stop Antigone from doing what was right. Because her faith was strong she caused an audience who stood behind her “No woman has ever had a fate that’s so unfair (they) say when what she did deserves honor and fame.”(page 30 line694-695) proves that what Antigone did was good and not bad and they are happy of what she did. Compared to Socrates who has for 70 years stood up for himself from his accusers, he did not let their bad mouth of him stop him from proving what god of Delphi has brought upon him , in order for the court to believe him he had express himself . After Socrates finish pleading his case of corrupting the youth and impiety of worshiping another god, the jury announced the amount of votes. 280 saw Socrates’ to be guilty and 221 found him not guilty. Socrates supposed that none of the jury would even consider his plead, so to him and too see a fair amount of