The Modern World:

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The Modern World

• A Remarkable Diversity
• 1900 to the present

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Darwin Undermining Victorian Ideas

• Theory of evolution based on natural selection
  ______ or become ______
• _______ Darwinism in human society, only the
  fittest _________ survive and flourish
• Social Darwinism was used to justify unrestricted
  competition, rigid _______ distinctions, _______
  to social problems, and doctrines of _______
  superiority.

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Marx Undermining Victorian Ideas

• Philosopher and economist
• Advocates doing away with _______ property
• Argues that _______ should own the means of
  production
• Theories of social and economic justice

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Freud Undermining Victorian Ideas

• Doctor
• Finds the motives for human behavior not in our
  rational, conscious minds but in the _______ and
  sexually driven realm of the _______, which
  manifests itself mainly in our _______
• _______ drives motivates our behavior

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A War to End All Wars

• World War I the _____ war
• Young men flocked to enlist to defend their
  nation, but they _____ in great numbers.
• After the war, many were _________ because the
  results of the war were negative a __________
  economy, a tottering colonial empire, and a
  devastating _____ of life. As a result,
  ___________ about the state and the individuals
  relation to society entered.

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A Revolution in Literature

• Modernism _____________ with form and content
• Focus on ___________ instead of a concern with
  __________
• Some rejected traditional _____________ order in
  storytelling
• _______ of ____________ writing
• Less discreet descriptions of sexuality

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Origins of World War II

• Worldwide economic __________ fostered the rise
  of dictators in some countries
• Hitler the Nazi party used the __________ woes
  to convince many Germans that their problems were
  caused by ______, Communists, and ___________.
• The Holocaust resulted in the death of millions
  of innocent men, women, kids
• Much of the literature after World War II was
  _______ and ____________

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Britain after World War II

• The ___________ assumed responsibility for
  providing ________ care and other basic benefits
  for its citizens.
• Most of the _______ gained their independence,
  ending the _______ Empire.

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British Writing Today

• Angry Young Men criticized the ____________ of
  intellectuals and the _______ lives of the middle
  class.
• Postmodernism often deals with _______s
  rights, multiculturalism, the environment, and
  _______ destruction.
• The British excel at _______.

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World/Postcolonial Literature

• Writers can have __________ influence.
• Postcolonial literature writers from former
  British ________ explore issues of personal
  identify and the effects of _________ domination
  and _______.
• Spread of _______ across the world has also
  affected the literature.

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African Expressions

• Negritude encouraged black writers to turn to
  ____________ African culture, art, and history as
  sources of inspiration and _______.
• Other writers confront racism and social
  inequality.

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Other Writings

• Feminist writers dramatize womens lack of
  _______ in a world controlled by _______.
• Much of modern world literature has been a direct
  and blistering response to _______.