the modern era
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The Modern Era. Group 6 Nicholas Ly Alex McBean Stephen Searfoss Desmond Mobley. Rulers of T he Nation. Effected the W hole T ime Period. The Rise of Dictatorships. Benito Mussolini-Came to power for Italy in 1922 Adolf Hitler and Nazi party capitalized on Germany's economic woes - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Modern Era
Group 6Nicholas Ly
Alex McBeanStephen SearfossDesmond Mobley
Rulers of The NationEffected the Whole Time
Period Charles Darwin(1809-1882) Karl Marx (1818-1883) Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
The Rise of Dictatorships Benito Mussolini-Came to
power for Italy in 1922 Adolf Hitler and Nazi party
capitalized on Germany's economic woes
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin had sought in the 1920’s to create a
society without a class system After Lenin’s death in 1924,
Joseph Stalin took power
Social Darwinism- only the fittest should survive and flourish
Modernism- a broad trend in literature and other arts, from 1890’s to 1940’s
• Reflect the fragmentation and uncertainly that characterized modern life
• Rejected traditional poetic meters and wrote free verse
• Novelist such as James Joyce employed a technique called Stream of Consciousness to record the randomness and free association of their characters thoughts
Dark and Pessimistic Postmodern It was a mix of poverty, anxiety, and the
occasional prosperity. People lived everywhere across the globe. Dresses mostly varied from time period to
time period.
Characteristics of Literature in the Modern Era
Started in 1901 after Queen Victoria’s death 1914-1918: WWI 1929: Stock Market crash 1939-1945:WW2 August 6th and 9th 1945: Hiroshima and
Nagasaki had seen the use of the Atomic Bombs
Historical Events in the 1900s
Historical Events continued
1946: The first computer (ENIAC)
1955: Civil Rights movement begins
1969: U.S astronaut Neil Armstrong landed on the moon
1991: Collapse of the Soviet Union
2001: 9/11, Four planes hijacked by terrorists
1904: Abbey theater founded by W.B Yeats 1922: Joyce’s Ulysses publishes Nobel Prizes: Winston Churchill (1953) Naguib Mahfouz (1988) W.B Yeats(1923)
Literary Events
Winston Churchill (Blood, Sweat, and Tears) Ben Okri (Shadows of War) W.B Yeats (Abbey’s Theater) James Joyce (Ulysses) George Orwell (Shooting an Elephant) T.S Eliot (The Wasteland)
Major Writers
Modernism Thrillers Postmodernism Dystopian
Types of Literature
Major Works of Literature
The Hollow Men (T.S Eliot)
Night (Elie Wiesel) In the Shadow of War
(Ben Okri) Shooting an Elephant
(George Orwell) Araby (James Joyce) 1983 (George Orwell) Animal Farm (George
Orwell)
Since the death of Queen Victoria, Britain has
been losing it’s colonies, starting with India, Egypt, Ireland, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada
The effect of colonialism had on other countries produced postcolonial literature, which focused on how their culture had been uprooted and how foreign influence changed their way of life.
Influence other nations had on Britain