Literature

Question 1

1. What were the effects of World War Ion british people?

Answer 1

-death of Victorian values and Lost faith i progress and science
-europe in a cynical and disillusioned mood
-soldiers either hunted by guilt or hedonistic lifestyle

Question 2

2.Which new ideas of man and the universe emerged?

Answer 2

Nothing seemed certain or stable
-Freud’s new psychoanalysis
-Albert’s Einstein theory of relativity

Question 3

3. What was Modernism?

Answer 3

Rejection of traditional values
-distortion of shapes
-redefinition of spcae and times
-complexity of urban life reflceted in artistic forms
-uncertain ,temporary perception of reality
-reconsideration of the past
-importance of both conscious and unconscious mind

Question 4

4. Characteristics of the modern novel?

Answer 4

• the narrator’s role= to mediate between solid values of the past and the confuse present

-Rejection of chronological order and use of subjective time

-New narrative techniques and stream-of-consciousness technique

Question 5

5.What is the interior monologue?

Answer 5

It is the verbal expression of a psychic phenomenon