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- - - - In 1918 voting rights were granted to all women property owners over 30
  - - - the terrible experience of the war became the subject of many poetic works by the 'War poets'
  - - - Easter Monday 1916: a group of Irish staged the 'Easter Rising' in Dublin and proclaimed the Irish Republic
        
        The British quelled the rebellion and executed many of the rebels, but the Irish Free State was created in 1922
- - - - in 1965 President Lyndon Johnson passed the Voting Rights Act
  - - - American forces were sent to Europe in 1918
        
        After the war, Wilson helped to negotiate a peace treaty included a plan for the creation of a League of Nations
  - - - in 1913 the 16th,17th and 19th Amendments to the Costitution
        
        direct election of US Senators to Congress
        
        the right to vote was granted to women
        
        the first national income tax
- - - - Analysis of the inner self and the unconscious
        
        It led to th development of psychoanalisis
    - - Reformulation of the traditional concepts of time and space
  - - - Modernism was probably the most famous among these new trends
- - - - He uses the stream of consciousness technique to represent the uncontrolled flux of thoughts of human mind
    - - His plots are rather linear, language is controlled and syntax is logical
        
        He uses powerful symbols
  - - - In 1904 he met Nora Barnacle, who would become his wife
        
        He moved to Trieste to work as a language teacher and became friend with intellectuals such as Italo Svevo
        
        In 1920 he moved to Paris and died there in 1941
  - - - The stories can be divided into three groups
        
        Stories about adulthood
        
        impossibility to escape, frustation, lack of freedom
        
        Stories about the relationship between the Irish people and their institutions
        
        Paralysis and lack of life
        
        Stories about childhood
        
        Sense of disillusionment and failure
      - Paralysis
        
        It is both physical and spiritual
        
        Spritual stagnation on the self
        
        Physical impossibility to escape
    - - The narrative technique is apparently traditional
        
        Mix of realism and subjective perspective
        
        Rejection of the Victorian omniscent third-person narrator
        
        Use of free direct thought and free speach
        
        Use of Internal perspective
  - - - The novel is set in Dublin on one single day(16 June 1904)
        
        Joyce focuses on the actions of three main characters:Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and Molly, Bloom's wife
    - - Use of the stream of conscoiusness technique
        
        It reflects the working of the minds of the characters
        
        No logical or rational organisation of thoughts, no traditional punctuation
        
        Thoughts are represented freely, without filters
      - Constant references to Homer's Odyssey
        
        This gives universality to the events narrated
      - It is an epic novel that uses multiple styles
        
        Experimentation with words, styles,techniques
- - - - Rapid,economic growth had produced a society in which this 'new' money was consumed in a round of parties,music, materialism.
        
        The Great Gatsby can be considered the consummate statement of the elusive of American Dream of self-improvment, and realisation , reaching out towards and impossible happiness
    - - The novel is written using a 'cinematic' style, in the sense that it resembles the style of a film
        
        action is fragmented into brief scenes that are connected by the voice of narrator.
        
        The story is narated by Nick Carraway, who is an'outsider'
    - - The story is about a number of charachters living in a fictional town called West Egg Long Island in the summer of 1922.
      - The narrator, Nick Carraway, is fascinated by the lifestyle of Jay Gatsby.
      - Gatsby met Daisy Buchanan who is married with Tom.
      - Gatsby and Daidy become romantically involved.
      - Tom has a mistress but cannot accept his wife's infidelty so confronts Gatsby and tells his wife that Gatsby's fortune is based on illegal "bootlegging".
      - Daisy is ready to break off her relationship with Gatsby.
      - Daisy and Gatsby return to Long Island by car and on the way accidentally kill Tom's mistress in a road accident.
      - Daisy was driving but Gatsby takes the responsability for the homicide.
      - The mistress's husband shoots Gatsby and takes his own life.
    - - The novel is characterised by an elegant style and by the use of highly evocative,poetic language and a series of vividly described recurring symbols.
  - - - He also worked without much success as a scriptwriter in Hollywood
    - - He was educated at Princeton University
- - - - the wall street Crash of 1929 brought this golden age