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The Modern Age Liceo Scientifico “A. Einstein” School year: 2014 – 2015 Class: 5 ALS Student: Iacumin Jessica

The Modern Age: political and economical crisis 1890 – 1930 Tension between European nations because of Colonialism Trade Tension led to World War I (1914 – 1918) New technologies: shocking power of destruction Battleground included Europe, Asia and Africa Consequences: Europe lost self confidence URSS and USA became the leading nations in the world People lost faith in liberal democracy, capitalism, the idea of progress People lost faith in religion

The rise of the working class 1917: October revolution led by Lenin The working class wanted to achieve a better position People lost faith in liberal democracy and capitalism 1870s – 1880s: economic and financial crisis caused unemployment Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” (1848) encourages the rise of the working class The middle class introduced National insurance Unemployment pay Medical treatment

Religious crisis Absence of God  Man’s isolation Consequences: Pessimism and acceptance Personal relationship replaced divine love Adhesion to Christianity Social commitment

New discoveries and ideas Science Euclidean geometry  non Euclidean geometries Newtonian physics  1905: Albert Einstein’s relativity

Modern Literature: Poetry War poetry Symbolist poetry The Imaginist Movement

War poetry Importance given to sounds Irony Realism, details Unconventional structure, punctuation

Symbolist poetry The poet understands the unconscious Literary language speaks to the irrational part of the reader Importance given to sounds Free verse

The Imaginist Movement Dry and hard language Clear precise images Reflects modern reality Literary references: poetry addresses a small audience

Modern Literature: the Novel The reader is invited to interact with the literary work: No judgement, comments, observations from the narrator The narrator hides behind characters Identification with characters New idea of time Stream of consciousness Dramatic structure of the novel

Modern Literature T. S. Eliot James Fraser Jesse Weston

T. S. Eliot Mythical method Correlative objective: Immediate evocation of emotions

James Fraser Interest in Darwin’s theories Symbolist poetry Mythology and pre-history Civilization (study of society) Unconscious conveyed through symbols

Jesse Weston Synthesis of geography and history Interest in the Middle Ages and Grail legends