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