1. THE MODERN AGE
Grazia Scaini 5^B
A.S. 2014/2015

2. GREAT CRISIS CAUSES: CONSEQUENCES:
Positivism’s promises failed
End of European supremacy
Economic depression (unemployment)
Religious and moral crisis
Destruction of European’s self confidence
Development of Communism
Fight for rights
Doubt, insecurity and sense of isolation

3. RELATIVITY Personal morality A. Einstein’s theory of relativity
Bergson’s relativism of time

4. MEN’S CRISIS C. Jung’s Psychology of the Unconscious
S. Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis
Crisis of man’s power of reason
C. Jung’s Psychology of the Unconscious
People responds to the symbols of the unconscious
Man is not seen anymore like a rational creature

5. CONSEQUENCES IN POETRY
Symbolist poets:
Language of senses
To speak about the irrational
Aesthetic movement:
Break with the Victorianism
Exaltation of sensations and sentiments
Rejection of critical reason

6. NEW DRAMATIC NOVEL The narrator is invisible interior monologue
Use of mythical or historical characters
absence of comments, judgments and interference to discover the character’s identity to criticise the Victorian society

7. SITOGRAPHY: