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Concetti Chiave

  • Il declino della Gran Bretagna nel XX secolo fu segnato dalla crescita industriale tedesca e dall'emergere di potenze come Giappone e USA.
  • La Grande Depressione e il crollo di Wall Street provocarono sacrifici economici e milioni di disoccupati dipendenti dai sussidi.
  • Il Modernismo nel XX secolo portò a una rottura con le tradizioni del XIX secolo, esplorando la varietà della vita urbana e miti primitivi.
  • La teoria della relatività di Einstein e le idee di Freud sull'inconscio influenzarono il pensiero, mettendo in dubbio certezze consolidate.
  • Movimenti artistici come il Futurismo italiano e il Vorticismo esaltarono l'era delle macchine e l'innovazione poetica, con figure chiave come Filippo Tommaso Marinetti ed Ezra Pound.

Indice

  1. Decline of British power
  2. Welfare State and World War I
  3. Economic crisis and royal succession
  4. Modernism and intellectual shifts
  5. Futurism and literary movements

Decline of British power

When Queen Victoria died, Britain was one of the most powerful nations in the world but the twentieth century saw the decline of Britain that was caused by the tremendous growth of German industry.
New powers emerged outside Europe, Japan and the USA and the first decade of the twentieth century is known as the Edwardian period, after King Edward VII, who pursued a policy of peace and good relationships.

Welfare State and World War I

The Liberals launched a program to help the poor and the elderly, thus laying the foundations of the Welfare State and when World War I was declared, the whole nation was wild with excitement.
The intervention of the USA helped to end the war and the Treaty of Versailles established peace in Europe and another important issue that the Government had to tackle was India’s progress to independence.

Mahatma Gandhi resolved to work towards Indian independence by a series of campaigns non-violent like civil disobedience so India gained independence in 1947 but later Gandhi was assassinated.

Economic crisis and royal succession

Another important event in Europe and the USA was The Great Depression that was an economic crisis and the Wall Street Crash marked the beginning of a period of sacrifices in fact there were millions of unemployed living only on the dole.

King George V was succeeded by his eldest son King Edward VIII who abdicated ceding the throne to his brother King George VI and when in 1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany, the World War II had started.

Modernism and intellectual shifts

Literary context

The 20th century witnessed a profound change, in thought and feeling, labeled as Modernism and one of its most important features was the break with the traditions of the 19th century.

There was the urgency to represent the variety of modern urban life using also primitive myths to compare with contemporary society.

Sigmund Freud explained that the development of personality is very affected by the unconscious and also even the theory of relativity by Albert Einstein affected the faith in its solidity.

The idea that everything was relative was also introduced by anthropology that affirmed that there weren’t better or worse societies because behaviour depended on the environment.

Futurism and literary movements

Intellectuals losted all the certainties they had and the result was a profound feeling of anxiety and one of the most important movements of Modernism was Italian Futurism with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

Futurism praised the machine age and later born a group of poets, the Imagists, such as Ezra Pound and Thomas Hulme, whose descriptions were accurate, precise and definite and another movement that involved Ezra Pound was Vorticism.

Domande da interrogazione

  1. Quali furono le cause del declino della Gran Bretagna nel ventesimo secolo?
  2. Il declino della Gran Bretagna nel ventesimo secolo fu causato dalla crescita dell'industria tedesca e dall'emergere di nuove potenze come il Giappone e gli Stati Uniti.

  3. Quali furono le iniziative dei Liberali durante il periodo edoardiano?
  4. I Liberali lanciarono un programma per aiutare i poveri e gli anziani, gettando così le basi dello Stato del benessere.

  5. Come influenzò il Modernismo il contesto letterario del ventesimo secolo?
  6. Il Modernismo portò a una rottura con le tradizioni del XIX secolo, cercando di rappresentare la varietà della vita urbana moderna e introducendo concetti come la relatività e l'influenza dell'inconscio.

  7. Quali furono alcuni dei movimenti letterari importanti del Modernismo?
  8. Alcuni movimenti importanti del Modernismo furono il Futurismo italiano con Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, gli Imagisti con poeti come Ezra Pound e Thomas Hulme, e il Vorticismo.

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