Which character values divine authority more than human authority?

antigone

ismene

creon

eteocles

Antigone

Antigone values divine authority more than human authority, as she is willing to break the law in order to ensure that her brother Polynices receives a respectable burial. King Creon has ascended to the throne of Thebes and he has declared that Polynices is not to be buried or even mourned. The punishment for this is stoning. Antigone, who disagrees with this ruling, defies the king's orders, but is caught.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

may i know the title of the book?