War Veteran as Victim and Victimizer in Bill Cain's 9 Circles

Abstract

Bill  Cain's 9 Circles is a play about a war veteran who is deluded by the American capitalists and sent to Iraq. Though he does not conform to the standard requirements of recruitment, yet he is recruited and sent to the battlefield. He is misled by the propaganda of war that he is going to fight an enemy. Once he is in Iraq, one of his colleagues is killed and hanged for some days, he becomes preoccupied with revenge. He commits a heinous crime raping a young girl, murdering her and her family. This paper shows how does the American elite manipulate everything for their interests. They falsify truth and create false consciousness in the minds of Americans terrifying them of the threat of Iraq. The paper also reveals the hypocrisy of the elite and how they try to find a scapegoat for any crime that is leaked to mass media.

Keywords: false consciousness, victim, victimizer, war veteran

DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/67-06

Publication date: April 30^th 2020