The Culture Change After Wwi
They are no longer having the sense of patriotism, and a lot of them move aboard to taste the expatriate lifestyle. They are lost in this world, and they do not know what to do. The literatures at this time period really reflect the idea of being lost. The writers called themselves the lost generation. “The phrase was actually originated by the garage owner who repaired Stein’s which was a famous writer at that time car. When a young mechanic failed to repair the car In a way satisfactory to Stein the owner had shouted at him, “You are all a generation Purdue. Stein, In telling Hemingway the story added, ‘That
Is what you are. That’s what you all are… All of you young people who served In the war. You are a lost generation. ” The term became very popular after Hemingway public his novel “the sun also rise”. Like Hemingway said ” I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice.. I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and he sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. ” His book the sun also rises reflect the idea of expatriates and create the sense of lost. The main characters are mostly engage in heavily drinking.
They work in the daytime, and drunk in the night time. They don’t think about their future, or they don’t know they do or do not have a future. There are a lot of famous writers belong to the lost generation Like F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S Eliot, Gertrude Stein. In T. S Elite’s poem the waste land, he constantly reminded the readers that there Is no future on this land, and this land Is a abandon land. Similarly, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote In his novel the side of paradise that this generation ” Grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars ought, and all faiths in man shaken. ” The war helped the rise of the black culture.
The new Negro movement or the nowadays so called Harlem Renaissance was a black culture movement. It started at Harlem, a section of New York City which gathered one hundred and fifty thousand African American. African-American writers and artists gave voice here challenging the structures of American racial oppression, and show the potential of the black culture to the world. The movement was stared at the end of WWW, and ended in the start of the great depression. WWW created a lot of Job opportunity in the north, and his led to the migration of black people from the south which was known as the Great Migration.
The black people gathered together at place like Harlem to form their own black community. After the war, soldiers return from the front, and competing job with the black people. Racial riots broke out in the north. The increase the Harlem renaissance. A lot of writers and artist saw this culture movement as a opportunity of uplifting the black culture, and gained more right to the African American. However, some writers and artists saw this movement was Just an expression of their native culture.
