Anouilh Journal 1

Europe during the 1940s:
-WWII going on
-Coming of the Atomic Bomb
-and world powers coming together

These huge events might have influenced Anouilh's version of Antigone quite a bit. Because he wrote this play while the Nazis occupied France, where he lived, his trials and events that happened while the Nazis were there might have had an affect on his writing. His views and opinions of the whole situation during that time most likely influenced his writing and could have made him more biased towards certain characters that he wrote. His own morals and belief of right and wrong probably had the most influence on anything he wrote during that time period.