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What motivates Antigone to defy Creon's decree by burying her brother?

What motivates Antigone to defy Creon's decree by burying her brother?
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What motivates Antigone to defy Creon's decree by burying her brother?

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divine authority

is the answer.

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Obedience to a higher law, and not the law that Creon's posed upon everybody. He forbade Antigone to bury her brother as he was considered to be a traitor, but Antigone still believed he deserved a proper burial and the funeral rites. 
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