1. The Great Gatsby

2. Modernism

3. Modernism as a literary movement came about because of changes seen throughout the world before, during, and after WWI, specifically the development of things like airplanes, cars, and telephones and the devastation and aftermath of WWI.
Writers and artists tried to find new ways to create art that reflected the changes they saw in the world.
Modernism was a reaction against Victorian beliefs, traditions, and values.
It also reflected the loss of faith in the “American Dream” and the idea that the independent, self-reliant person would be better off in the long run.
Modernism

4. Writers
began to play games with time and order, perspective, point of view, and form.
Novels were written with fragmented plots not clear beginnings, middles, and ends.
In poetry, that meant strange metaphors stacked on top of each other, mixing meters and free verse, and allusions to the past.
Writers began to use stream of consciousness instead of “normal” third person POV
Modernism

5. Modernism—”The Fearsome Foursome”
Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution and natural selection
Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. He revolutionized the way people thought about the brain
Karl Marx and the idea of inequalities in society.
Friedrich Nietzsche and his proclamation that "God is dead."
Modernism—”The Fearsome Foursome”

6. Modernism—”The Lost Generation”
The term refers to modernistic authors who chose to live overseas while they created works of literature.
Literary greats like Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Stein are authors who did this.
Modernism—”The Lost Generation”

7. Famous Modernistic Authors
Famous modernist writers include T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens in poetry; Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce in the novel; and artists like Pablo Picasso and Duchamp.
Famous Modernistic Authors

8. As you watch this video, take notes on important facts, ideas or concepts you hear/see. Write these in your packet in the Fitzgerald section.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald

9. The Great Gatsby part 1