Antigone Jenny Peterson Essay, Research Paper

In our society today, movies and television

shows are being broadcast all over the world to many genders, races, and

ages. Some of these shows involve many violent topics and situations. For

example, the news qualifies as a violent shows because three fourths of

every broadcast involves a violent situation. The next generation of adults

is exposed to this violence everyday, thinking it?s cool or acceptable.

I think that if teenagers witness the violent actions in person they would

react differently than seeing them on TV.

The violent scenes in Antigone are much

like crimes that occur everyday. For example, a gang related crime can

be compared to one of the many deaths in Antigone. The public views these

crimes as normal. Most often violence in the news is ignored or called

normal. If more people witnessed violence then maybe more actions would

be taken to stop it from happening. I think the violence told in Antigone

was very low-key compared to the things we see today on the news.

Today, our society likes to take time off

to relax and watch a movie. Do you think it?s relaxing to watch people

die and constantly be injured? Well most of the movies out today are violent.

Even thought here are strict rating rules put on these movies, children

are still seeing them. For example, The Power Rangers Movie. In this movie,

five teenagers take on the roles of fighters. When kids view this PG rated

movie they see how cool it is to kill other creatures and human beings.

About three weeks after this movie was released in Chicago, two kids were

playing power rangers; they decided to take the game a step further by

involving pencils used as swords. This game ended with one of the two kids

with serious incisions from the pencil. This situation could have easily

been avoided if some of these movies were not so violently oriented.

To summarize, if the world was more peaceful,

life would be easier to live and watch happen. Violence should be avoided

at any cost because if it is stopped now life will become happier. Antigone

relates to our lives now but not so much that it can influence people to

do things that are not right. We have control over what we do; so why is

all this violence happening?