Historical And Clutural Influences On Twentieth Century Writ

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.

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 revolution so much so that the characters can almost be interchanged with key figures at the time.

All of these factors affected writing in the twentieth century in different ways leaving us with a wide range of novels and fictitious writing to educate and entertain everybody.

The Second World War also influenced how enemies are perceived. It is very rare to read a novel in which the enemy is not situated in the east. In JRR Tolkein’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’, written during

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