Historical_And_Clutural_Influences_On_Twentieth_Century_Writ

Historical And Clutural Influences On Twentieth Century Writ Many different factors affected writing in the twentieth century including two world wars, industrialisation and changes to the social climate. Challenges on ‘The Origins of Species’ by Charles Darwin and the way the human mind works by Sigmund Freud also affected writing. Industrialisation provided large numbers of jobs for the general public. With the increase in employment came an increase in people’s disposable income. As a result of this more people started to enter the education system and standards of education rose. As the country became more literate novels could be written and read by a wider range of people. Up until this time novels had always been written by the upper-middle class who wrote about their experiences. This, therefore, gave novels at the time a very biased viewpoint. Novels in the twentieth century soon began to take on all aspects of life like ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ by Alan Sillitoe. In this novel Sillitoe looks at the life of a working class man and uses colloquial language and obscenities, which would never have been used in books before this time. The novel ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell has been strongly influenced by the Russian writing, world, people, novels, written, twentieth, time, century, war, second, influenced, been, way, wars, period, novel, mind, before, became, affected, very, two, true, situated, sillitoe, sigmund, read, range, own, never, much, man, major, life