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The Modern Age
Historical and Social background
end of the victorian age
Woman struggle to vote
Birth of the welfare state
outbreak of the WWI and WWII
The suffraggette
an Women's union for the gaint of the vote
1918: Right to vote. over 30 yo
1928: right to vote over 21 yo
The welfare state
David George
The man whocreate a welfare state
Pension Free meals in schools -Minimum wages insurances
Rejected at first
Liberals wanted a state intervation on the social life
The major issues of the UK
Ireland
Civil War
The empire
Colonies want the independece
1926: Commonwealth was created
the 1920s
Economic and technological boom
1929: Wall Street Crash
atomics boom and holocaust
George VI became king
Cultural Background
Disillusionment
Crisis of certainties
Old values began to collapse
Freud's influence
id, ego, superego
Libido
Children are not pure and innocent
New perception of the self
the new role of the man in the society
Focus on the subjectivity
New perception of time
Time cannot be measure
Time is a flow
Stream of consciousness in literature
Rootlessness
due to the dissulution of the empire
Age of anxiety
Economical crisis and WWI
Technological transformation
Cinema and radio
Mass Production
Transport
Rapid changes and enthusiasm of the progress
Literature
Modernism
A complex age marked by the unrest and that cound not produce complex art
emphasis shift from the society to the man himself
Subjective truth
Importance of unconsious
Modernist Fiction
Break the victorian values
unconscious
new lenguage to express the atrocity
New narrative techniques
Stream of consiousnees
No linear plot ore chronological order
Inner time
1 day in 50 pages or 10 years in 5 pages
The novelist must explore what make the mental process and how this process work
Indirect monologue
Direct monologue
NO Connection or subject punctuation
Group of novelist
Stream of consiousness ficition
Joyce and Woolf
Dystopian
an alter reality semi-true
Orwell
Psychological Novel
Character's development and human relationship
Joyce and Orwell
Joyce
Born in Dublin and He hated Ireland
Disillusioment toward the irish political situation
More european than Irish
Dubliners
A collection of short stories of the life of the irishes
Realist description
Oppressive effect of the religious and political forces
Realisim and symbolism
Themes
Paralysis (zoom out)
Lack of awareness
Epiphany
Spiritual awakening of the characters
Style
Interior monologue
Chiasmus
Language
Main Work
Ulysses
Orwell
Born in India By a rich family
Attracted by the working class and live in paris an london
Born as a reporter in Catalunya and joined thr worker's party during the civil war
Loved the vision of human fraternity and justice against the totalitarism
1984
Set in London (Oceania)
A critic of the communism and nazism and totalitarism in general
Political atmosphere of tyrannyes
Oceania is dominated by 'Big Brother'
every citizen is spied everywhere
Opposition of Wilson