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The Twentieth Century to 1939 - Coggle Diagram
The Twentieth Century to 1939
The
scene
Boer War in South Africa was not successful
Colonies began to rebel & the British control of other contries began to disappear
Death of Captain Scott having failed to reach Pole South
1st World War
Basic religious and political beliefs were questioned
The British Labour party grew
Women were allowed to vote for the first time in 1928
Ideas
The
Empire crumbling down
Melancholy
The sinking of the "Unsinkable" Titanic
A symbol on how the Industrial power was easily defeated
Fragmentarity
Nietzsche. There was no such thing as an absolute truth, only knowledge obtained perceptively which is impossible to communicate to others
The rising science of ethnology showed that human cultural practices and beliefs were variant and situational rahter than universal
Freud and other theorists of the unconcious challenged the Cartesian vew of human beings as rational, integral, self-aware, and self-present
Darwin's theory of natural selection described an imperfect, half-animal human species, whose continued
mutability
was governed
by chance
rather providential desings
The Novel 1900-39
Personal, individual themes
Questioning of the Bildungsroman and its logic, of the past and tradition
Examination of the whole world: settings outside England, especially the
colonies
England in
contrast
with the other countries described. Questioning the Empire through the critic to
the image of the other
Modernism
Sigmund Freud
People had began to think differently
The way we percieve ourselves and other had radically altered
Conciousness
not as an unalterable constant, but as a fluid and
shifting collection of perceptions and feeling
...
Pessimistic
world view
Inability to communicate
Stream of Consciousness and Authomatic writing
Different poits of views
Symbols, and creation of
their own symbols