Journal 11

what do you know about the 1940s in Europe and how do you predict that will influence Anouilh's version of Antigone?

I know that the 1940s was a bad time in Europe, because you had the communists in the Soviet Union that was attacking from the east and the rise of the Nazis in central Europe. Hitler dominated much of Europe and took over many countries there. It will influence Anouilh's version of Antigone in that his interpretation will be altered according to his life, which at the moment is ravaged by the world war. Anouilh is French; and the French defeat by Germany was a huge event in that decade.