Modern/Contemporary Period Flashcards
Between what years was the Modern Period?
1900 to now
What norms were broken down in this period?
Social norms
What was realistically embodied in this period?
Social meanings
What 2 features were separated from context in the Modern Period?
Meanings and senses
What behaviours were portrayed in unmanageable futures?
Despairing individual behaviours
What loneliness did characters experience in this period? What did this cause?
Spiritual loneliness
Alienation
What would readers experience reading texts?
Frustration
What was experienced within characters of texts?
Disillusionment
What 2 historical features of society were rejected in the Modern Period?
History
Outdated social systems
What 2 ideologies of thought were objected to in this era?
Traditional thoughts
Religious thoughts
What substitution of the past was introduced into this era?
Mythology
What Wars’ affected humanity in this period?
WW1/2
What new type of verse was introduced into poetry?
Free verse
What character feature began to appear in literature?
Epiphanies
What 3 forms were most texts of the periods written in?
Speeches
Memoirs
Novels
What stream of humanity influenced writing in this period?
Stream of consciousness
What did literature search for? What was discovered?
“Truths”
Deep ideas and meanings
How many soldiers did the British Empire lose to WW1?
A million
Who led Britain through WW2? Where did the Germans directly bomb?
Winston Churchill
Britain
What did British colonies demand in this period?
Independence
Who was a key author of this time period? What key novel did he write?
George Orwell
1984
