Group 6 Nicholas Ly Alex McBean Stephen Searfoss Desmond Mobley

 Rulers of The Nation Effected the Whole Time Period  Charles Darwin( )  Karl Marx ( )  Sigmund Freud ( ) 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  : WWI  1929: Stock Market crash  :WW2  August 6th and 9 th 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