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Atrocity

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A horrible or brutal attack

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Hysteria

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Uncontrolled excitement

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Apocryphal

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Of questionable authority, false

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Alliances

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Close associations entered into for mutual benefit

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Intrigue

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Scheming, plotting

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Archaic

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Old fashioned

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Vindicated

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Proved correct

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Pauper

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Extremely poor person

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Circumvent

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Avoid by cleverness or deceit

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Virulent

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Full of hate, venomus

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Tranquit

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Calm, quiet

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Perverse

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Odd, country

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acrid

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Bitter, irritateing

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Deluge

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Rush, flood

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Myad

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Almost beyond counting

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Legacy

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Money or property left to a person by the will of someone who has died

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Grotesque

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Strange, absurd

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Revernetail

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Deeply respectful

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Pious

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Devoted to ones religion

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Inert

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Sluggish, inactive

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Trepidation

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Anxious uncertainty

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Modernism 1914-1939

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Responce to ww1, wasteland, inner life of people, everyone starting over

The individual is iicolated from everyone else

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Anti hero

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Not a villian, but does not display action

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Hemingway 1899-1961

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“A soldiers home” bull fighting, selling his personality involved in spanish civil war and ww2.

Cultivated iceburg writing, and tight
Depressing moral + emotional wasteland after ww1

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Fulkner 1897-1962

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Souther gothic writeing

Broken south that is proud but corrupted. Chracters lost in past and present

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Hemingway
Fitzgerald
Faulker

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Loss of values after ww1
Loss/corruption of values diring jazz age
Loss of old southern values (civil war)

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