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In Sophocles’ Antigone the protagonist’s actions are justified through the principles of civil disobedience due to the utilization of direct action, the opposition to the government structure, and the willingness to give up natural rights as exhibited in Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” and Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Antigone’s actions are mainly plausible through the direct action in which she exploits to bring justice to her deceased brother. After Antigone buries Polynecies the guard describes the direct action as “The corpse- someone hath just given it burial, and gone away,- after sprinkling thirsty dust on the flesh, with such other rites as piety enjoins” (Sophocles 10). Antigone decides to

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