How does Antigone as the archetype of a tragic heroine support the theme that "divine law is higher than mortal law”? She sacrif
ices herself for her beliefs. She openly admits her guilt to Creon. She is more superstitious about burials. She is physically stronger than most women.
Antigone did not accept that her brother did not have a proper burial where she could say goodbye to him and send her soul beyond the way it should be done. For this reason she decided to bury her brother, even in the face of the king's prohibition and the threat of death for anyone who disrespected the rules he imposed.
However, Antigone believed that the family was above any political leadership, even the king himself and decided to sacrifice herself to exercise her belief and bury her brother in the appropriate way.
