General characteristics of the 20th century

 General characteristics of the 20th century

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                            Here I am going to wrote about general characteristics of the 20th century. This task is given by Dilip Bard sir, M. K. Bhavnagar University. The 20th century was a century that began on 1901 and ended on 2000.it was the 2nd millennium.

Introduction 

                            The 20th century was dominanted by a chain of events that heralded significant changes in world history as to redefine the Era. Yet some historical event or landmark has to be sought to mark the beginning and end of a certain age. Thus the year 1902 can be fixed as the year marking the end of the Victorian age and the beginning of the modern Age. For it is the year of queen Victoria's death.

                       Many of the poets, dramatist, novelists and prose writers were born in the victorian age but they continued living and writing well upto the third or fourth decade of the twentieth century. 

                         Here is some general characteristics of the 20th century. 

Characteristics 

1) symbolism 

                             Symbolism in France began as a reaction against naturalism and realism, movements which attempted to objectively capture reality. The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meaning to objects, events or relationships. Pouring the 20th century the use of symbolism become a major force in British literature. T. S. Eliot adapted it in the development of his individual style and praised it in his criticism. The most outstanding development of symbolism was in the art of the novel. 

2) Surrealism 

                       A 20th century aesthetic artisticn and cultural movement developed in France that attempt to express the workings of sun-conscious mind. They focused upon using all forms of arts as a means to express the real functioning of human mind. 

3) Dadaism

                                  A nihilistic art movement especially in painting that flourished in Europe early the 20th century. Based on irradiationality and nagation of the accepted laws of beauty. It Is a protest against the barbarism of war the rejection of prevailing standards of art and ignored logical relationship between idea and statement, argued for absolute freedom, delivered itself of numerous provocative manifestos. 

4) Cubism

                 A 20th century art movement that inspired other art froms. In cubism artworks, objects are broken up and reassemble into an abstract from. Cubist poetry attempts to do in vers what cubist painters. On canuas ; that is, take the elements of an experience, fragment them, and then rearrange them in a meaningful new synthesis. 

5) Existentialism 

                        It is a concept that became pomlar during the second world war in France. Existentialists believe that life is very difficult and that it doesn't have an objective or universally known value, but that the individual must create value by affirming it and living it, not NY talking about it. 

6) Impressionism 

                         The term ' Impressionism' comes from the school of mid-nineteenth century France painting. The impressionist made the act of perception the key for the understanding of structure of reality. They developed a technique by which objects were not seen as solids but as fragments of color which the spectaor's eye unified. 

7) Futurism 

                          In the 1920's and 1930's the term Futurism was loosely used to describe a wide variety of aggressively modern styles in art and literature. The futurists love speed, noice, machines, pollution and cities as they embraced the exciting new world that was then upon them. Futurist painting were mad to glotity life. Futurists developed to glorify urban life as well as machine and industrialization. 

8) Formalism 

.                           Writers of the modernist period saw literature more as a craft than a flowering of creativity. They belived that poems and novels were constructed from smaller parts instead of the parlier generations had described. The idea of literature as craft fed the modernist desire for creativity and originality. 

9) Absurdity 

                           The carnage of Two world wars profoundly affected writers of the period. Everal great English poets dies or were wounded in WWI. At the same time, global capitalism was recognizing society at every level. For many writers, the world was becoming a more absurd place every day. Modernist authors deplacted this absurdity in their works Franz Kafka's " The Metamorphosis" in which a traveling salesman is transformed into an insect - like creature, is an example ofodrrn absurdism. 

10) Experimentation 

.                      Writers btoks free of old forms and techniques. Poets abandoned traditional rhyme schemes and wrote in free verse novelists defied all expectations. Writers mixed images from the past with modern languages and themes, creating a collage of styles. The inner workings of consciousness were a common subjects for modernist. This preoccupation led to a form of narration called stream of consciousness, where the point of view of novel. 

Conclusion 

                           So here is my blog about some characteristics of 20th century. The century saw a major shift in the way that many people lived, with change in politics, ideology, economics, society, culture, science, technology, and medicine. The 20th century may have seen mor technological and scientific progress than all the other centuries combined since the dawn of civilization. 

                                       Thank you...