CHOOSING MORALS OVER THE LAW

ANTIGONE

• Antigone buried her brother
• Her uncle set the law and she broke it.
• She felt her brother deserved to be buried.

ANTIGONE CONTINUED

• Why did she break the law?
• She broke the law because she felt her brother should be buried.
• It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands: we die forever.
• Is of no importance; but if I had left my brother lying in death unburied,
• I should have suffered. Now I do not.

ANTIGONE CONTINUED

• Because of her actions:
• The king revoked the law of burying polyneices.
• She killed her self
• Haemon killed himself
• The queen killed her self because her son killed himself.

GANDHI

• He spoke to the large crowd,
• Then he picked up a lump of salt breaking the law.
• Started 12 March 1930 for a 24 day march.
• The protest lasted about a year.
• The British were in control and they set salt taxes.

GANDHI CONTINUED

• Wanted to help free India from British control.
• The people from India needed salt to survive.
• They couldn't pay for the salt they needed.
• They protested to get salt that they needed.

GANDHI

• Over 50,000 people were imprisoned
• Gandhi was assassinated at 78 in New Delphi.
• Over 30 years later:
• The salt march influenced Martin Luther King jr.
• And his fight for civil rights for blacks in the 1960s.