The common uncertainties we were left with after the Great War gave rise to many new ways of thought and practice that inevitably shaped the world we live in today. The search for certainty branched into many different areas of life and made room for improvement making way for new discovery. Albert Einstein was undoubtedly one of the gre

The presence of anxiety wasn’t as potent in America most likely because the number of casualties was much less than that of Europe. America’s ‘age of anxiety’ was more collectively felt after the Great Depression of 1929, which concluded a decade of partying in avoidance of the inability to deal with uncertainty. (I based this thought on your text on page 52 of the lecture notes, which I found to be a bit contradictory. I couldn’t tell whether America made the movements to deal with uncertainty before or after the Great Depression. I know the partying was before, but throughout the section, you linked all of the responses without specifying the time reference.) America’s reaction was evident in Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism. This was the push for the return of the protestant ways and the complete and literal following of the word of the Bible. Also, it emphasized the importance for America and the whole world to accept the message of Jesus Christ as it was in their version of the Bible.

The whole idea and feeling of uncertainty provoked a revolution in the world of art and literature as well. This revolution gave birth to a whole new style of writing called a “stream of consciousness”. This was a literary style that was an uninterrupted and continuous flow of thoughts as they would arise. This new way of literature also changed the way screenplays were written, and movies and theatre evolved from that point. It wasn’t only the art of writing that evolved, but also painting, drawing, sculpture and other more visual art. The traditional realistic forms of art gave way to Cubism, Dadaism and other forms of the Abstract, or non-representational forms of art. Anything from abstractions of reality to completely non-objective works were accepted as art. One of the forerunners of this movement and the first artists in recorded history to have created a genuine Abstract artwork was Pablo Picasso. His work was a painting of his perception and reflection of a war, which

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