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THE AGE OF CONFLICTS (1901-1945) - Coggle Diagram
THE AGE OF CONFLICTS
(1901-1945)
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
End of the Victorian Age,
End of Victorian optimism
Death of Queen Victoria (1901)
Beginning of major social changes
Decline of certainty and optimism
Edwardian Age (1901–1910)
Economic growth
Technological progress
Social inequalities remained
WORLD WAR I (1914–1918)
Massive destruction and loss of life
End of traditional values
Psychological trauma
Disillusionment with society
INTERWAR PERIOD (1919–1939)
Economic difficulties
Rise of totalitarian regimes
Growth of modern culture
SOCIAL CHANGES
Women's emancipation,
Right to vote
Urbanization
Technological innovations
Changes in family and social life
WORLD WAR II (1939–1945)
Global conflict
Bombings and destruction
End of Britain's world supremacy
CULTURAL CONSEQUENCES
Sense of uncertainty
Crisis of identity
Loss of faith in progress
Search for new values
LITERATURE
Stream of consciousness
Fragmented narration
Focus on psychology
(development of Freud's theory)
Experimentation in language and form
main movements:
Futurism
Expressionism
Surrealism
MODERNISM:
subjective time and space
MODERNIST WRITERS
James Joyce
(1882-1941)
Virginia Woolf
(1882-1941)