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modern age pt.2, Durante le epoche edoardiana e georgiana, la vita…

- - - - Later, scientists created new technology, including the atomic bomb. Some writers and thinkers were worried about science taking the place of religion or human values
        
        Nietzsche, a German philosopher, said that ideas like “good,” “truth,” and “beauty” were weak and outdated. Even though his ideas were later connected to Nazism, they influenced many British writers
- - - - Writers in the 1930s–40s worried about mass media and war technology. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell shows a future where a dictator, Big Brother, controls everyone using telescreens and microphones. The book became a symbol of how mass media can enslave people
        
        Modern American poets were influenced by Modernism and by psychology. They explored reality and how humans perceive it. Two important regions were the Midwest and New England. Edgar Lee Masters wrote Spoon River Anthology, where the dead speak about their lives in a small Illinois town.
- - - - In the 1920s, writers were influenced by jazz, city life, psychoanalysis, and movies. Many moved to Paris. Fitzgerald and Hemingway captured this era. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is about the failure of the American Dream. Hemingway focused more on war, death, and survivors of hard times
        
        From 1900 to the 1940s, American literature developed in many ways:
        
        • Small-town life (like in Sherwood Anderson or Sinclair Lewis, who criticized middle-class hypocrisy).
        
        • Southern life (William Faulkner).
        
        • Social protest novels (John Steinbeck, John Dos Passos).
        
        American modernism was less experimental than in Europe. Writers didn’t play with time or language like Joyce or Woolf did