Duty is one of those concepts that you can never truly pinpoint,
             mainly because it takes more than one form, according to the person giving
             the definition. It is agreeable that the concept of duty has different
             connotations for different members of society and depends not only on its
             self meaning, but also on the person (object, belief, creed, etc.) towards
             whom the duty is. For a monk or a priest, duty is towards God and it means
             serving him at the best of one's possibilities. A soldier's duty is
             towards his superiors and towards the state. However, for a simple
             individual, duty may be towards his family, his loved ones, and only
             afterward towards his state and country.
             Antigone is a significant representative of this last example that I
             have mentioned. Indeed, her first and main duty goes towards her family.
             Additionally, we may identify that she believes so strongly in her own
             moral laws that she is willing to ignore her civic duty and to die for what
             she believes in. Somewhat different from the Greek system, that put public
             and civic duty above private duty, Antigone's system is its reversal: duty
             towards her own moral laws- duty towards her family (including duty towards
             the dead) - duty towards the state and the community she lives in. Of
             course, it is interesting to analyze in Antigone's case whether this
             reversal of duties is a direct consequence of her own beliefs or of the
             fact that she does not believe in the state institutions and in their
             Socrates's duty was, in my opinion, towards knowledge (as a general
             concept). Knowledge of the exterior world and, even more important,
             knowledge of the interior world, of our inner selves. In fact, getting to
             know your inner world would probably have been regarded as the greatest
             achievement for Socrates. Socrates was a martyr of his creed in knowledge:
             as we know, he was accused of having practiced blasphe...