E-12 Modernism (1984)
Modernism dates
1901-1905
Treaty of Middle East after WWI
Treaty of Versailles
Population killed in WWI
750,000
Indian leader that led nonviolent resistance against Britain
Mahatma Gandhi
Prime Minister during WWII
Winsten Churchill
Political party who came into power after WWII and made Britain "welfare"
The Labor Party
Country that emarged after WWII
United States
Free Verse
Poetry without ryhm or rhythm
Poet who populized Free Poetry in England
TS Elliot
Stream of Consciousness
Narrative techniques that attempt to depict the leaps associate's of the cervical spaces.
Effect of world wars on literature
More bitter and fragmented
George Orwell time
1903-1950
George Orwells real name
Eric Author Blair
Where he served with Imperial PD
1922-1927 (Burma)
Civil War he fought in
Spanish Civil War
Injury suffered in war
GSW to the neck
Famous "barnyard" novel
Animal Farm
COD of George Orwell
TB Diagnostic
1984 year published
1948
Plot & major characters
Winsten Smith-rebels against the totalitarism rule big brother
Totalitarism regime Orwell satirizes
Facisim Communism
Warnings depicted in novel
Loss of originality
Connections to contemporary society
Nazi Germany (U.S.S.R.)