MODERN LITERATURE (1920-1961)

®    It was opposed to the Victorian ideals hypocritical, mean & superficial.

®    Nothing was certain in this period everything was questioned.

®    Radical changes came in artistic standards.

-       Victorian accepted the voice of authority.

-       There was an Innate desire to affirm & confirm believer

-       Moderns did not take anything as granted

-       Simple faith was replaced by modern man’s desire to probe and question.

-       Bernard show attacked on old superstitions of religion & new superstitions of science.

-       They challenged the voice of authority.

®    Question! Examine! Test became the criterion.

-       People produced the interrogative habit of mind.

®    People questioned religion & morality.

®    Disintegration of values.

-       Material prosperity is essential

-       Sex no longer remained a mystery.

-       Karl Marx, Engles, Rusking etc. were followed.

-       There was the influence of world wars.

-       Scientific thought

®    Universe looks like a colossal blunder

-       Man has to live by the clock.

®    There were No common grounds and writers.