What is Antigone's response to Creon's order?

Answer 1

Antigone responds to the order by her uncle, Theban King Creon, to refuse proper burial procedures to the disloyal Theban dead from the recent battle between Thebes and Argos. Her response isn't one of obedience. For the law contradicts the higher moral authority of the laws on the right of Thebans to be buried. And so Antigone decides to break the law in favor of complying with divine dictates; and of respecting the requirements for passage from life into death and the ties of blood and love. Thus it is that she goes ahead and buries her brother Polyneices, who counts among the disloyal Theban dead.