In Sophocles' Antigone, the heroine
A) struggles to obey divine rather than human law.
B) obeys the laws of the community rather than Zeus.
C) kills her brother and tries to bury him.
D) marries Orestes.
E) commits suicide rather than disobey divine law.
Ans: A
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