Antigone

Is Antigone's commitment and reverence for divine law falsified when she states that had it been her husband or her child whose body had been denied burial she wouldn't have defied the will of the public ( i.e King's law) ?

Not necessarily. In order to be consistent one has only to disapprove of every instance of violation of a principle that one believes in, not necessarily react identically to every violation. Some violations may, legitimately, matter more to us than others. Inconsistency arises only when one violation wins approval while the other doesn't. Antigone never states that she would have approved of it if burial had been withheld from her husband or child rather than her brother, only that she would not have defied the public will in that case i.e done the burial herself.

Nevertheless, there is something odd about her statement. Why would a woman love and honor her brother more than her husband or her own child ?(the reason she offers, of the brother's irreplaceability relative to a husband or a child is not convincing)

Perhaps we can put this down to the fact that Antigone is neither married nor a mother and having not experienced such relations, is speaking naively.

Creon is not wrong to insist that a traitor be denied honour. His insistence that Polynices's corpse be defiled by birds and dogs, however, is unbecoming and barbaric. A simple burial without ceremony or honors would have served the purpose.

He also misjudges other people's motives and exhibits a stubbornness in rethinking his views( flaws, which , incidentally ,he shares with Oedipus, Antigone's father).

His insistence on the death penalty for Antigone is cruel and unjust. The burial of a traitor is not the same thing as treason and does not merit the same punishment.