One area of modern thought that was hugely impacted and changed forever was that of Philosophy. The works of a man by the name of Friedrich Nietzsche, who lived from 1844 until 1900, were later discovered and revived by many radical thinkers after the war. Nietzsche believed that the conventional morality of the day was utterly backwards, and that it was hindering any real understanding or grasp of our reality and us as thinking beings. He argued t

In the area of science and physics people had always been able to rely on facts and laws that governed our universe and made it somewhat predictable. Reality, it was thought, could be completely explained and understood given proper analyzing techniques, and by recognizing the laws of nature that were unchanging. However, the introduction of a new type of physics that dealt with unpredictability in the most fundamental levels of matter brought with itself even more uncertainty for people. Marie Curie, a physicist from Poland, discovered that certain elements can give off radiation, and that the atomic weight of these particles is forever changing. Before this, people had always thought that atoms never changed and that they were the unbreakable basic building blocks of all matter in the universe. Albert Einstein added even more uncertainty when he introduced his theory of relativity. It stated that matter could be converted into energy and back again, just as water can be converted into a solid and back again. Another physicist by the name of Ernest Rutherford showed that individual atoms could be broken down and split into even smaller, subatomic particles. But perhaps one of the most shocking blows of uncertainty in the world of physics came from Werner Heisenberg. His “principle of uncertainty,” stated that because the speed and position of an electron are impossible to know at the same time, it is therefore impossible to be able to predict its behavior. Given all of these scientific breakthroughs, it seemed that no one could even turn to conventional physics for answers anymore.

Uncertainty was further driven home in the area of literature. Authors seeking newer and more profound ways of interpreting and expressing their sorrowful realities developed writing styles that did not adhere to previous rules or methods. In some cases liberties were taken with sentence structures, spelling, and grammar. A new style called stream of consciousness was born and it experimented with the intricat

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