A_Reoccurring_Connection

A Reoccurring Connection In the summer of 2003 President George W. Bush waged a military campaign in Iraq with false justifications and fabricated documents that were used as evidence to further his war agenda. Throughout literature there are uncanny resemblances to this moment in current events. Ranging from the dictatorial King Creon in Sophocles’ “Antigone” to the Eighth circle of falsifiers in Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno” to More’s resistance against King Henry VIII in “A Man For All Seasons”. All of these stories in literature and more contain many similarities to the situation that is occurring in Iraq. Many of these stories may have been disturbing or righteous inspirations to many individuals that had their part in the war. May it have been support to enter into the military fray or resistance and protest against the concept of war in Iraq, these stories can not but help but mirror the issue in several different viewpoints. On the aspect that the majority of the nation did not support the war, “Antigone” fits this very well. When Haemon was trying to convince his father King Creon to not punish and execute Antigone for her rebellion, he states that the whole of Thebes has the same opinion that war, iraq, bush, against, people, truth, because, king, being, out, through, search, resistance, protest, one, lies, frankenstein, decision, creon, community, been, world, way, opinion, international, idea, going, creation, circle, administration, wasn’t, wanted, very, throughout, support, saw