1. The Modern Age
Zanon Alice VB
Liceo Scientifico “A. Einstein”

2. The main features The loss of values  religious and moral crisis;
Doubts and fears about society and man’s place in the Universe;
New way of thinking: philosophy;
Economic crisis;
New kinds of poetry.

3. The loss of values was due to:
The failure of Positivism;
Economic crisis;
Scientific development;
New ideas about men and their conditions.
Consequences:
Religious and moral crisis;
Destruction of European’s self confidence;
Doubt, insecurity and sense of isolation.

4. New theories of scientists and philosophers
A. Einstein develops the theory of relativity;
Freud’s theories about the psychoanalysis;
Darwin’s theory of Evolution On The Origin Of Species;
Yung’s studies about men’s unconscious mind;
Euclidean geometry and Newtonian physics were shown to rest on false assumptions;
Bergson rejection of the conventional idea of time.

5. Economic crisis First World War; Economic depression  Unemployment;
Communist revolution broke out in Russia;
Europe was in competition with other States;
USA supremacy.

6. The modern poetry Language of senses;
Birth of the dramatic novels and monologues;
The narrator is invisible  he is not omniscient, he does not judge;
The novelist does not appear;
Interior monologue that makes the reader understand the protagonist’s identity;
Use of mythical figures to criticize the society.

7. The Aesthetic movement
No moral education;
Art is detached from any moral code;
Against the Victorianism;
Based on feelings and sensations;
Influenced by Walter Pater’s philosophy.

8. Sitography