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The Age of Anxiety, Sigmund FREUD, Henry BERGSON, Albert EINSTEIN, "…
The Age of Anxiety
1) First World War
The war made it clear that the old values of progress, individual liberalism and colonial expansion were no longer adequate and the gap between the older generation, regarded as responsible for the waste of lives during the war, and the younger one, grew wider and wider.
The horrors of the war shattered the belief in the power of reason and progress and upset social order.
It left the country in a disillusioned and cynical mood added to frustration and rootlessness due to to slow dissolution of the Empire into the Commonwealth.
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3) A new picture of man
Because of all these uncertainties the concept of man and the role of the artist were put into question
4) Literary aspects
The historical events and social trends were reflected in the literary and artistic production of the period characterized by technical and stylistic experimentalism.
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