The Lost Generation Let us see if we cannot make a fine game of it that we shall be all the better for having played out to the end. ... This great war left entire cities and country sides in ruins and along with them an entire generation of men. ... "For Germans the focus of the war was directed toward the future"(Eksteins, 118). It was too be a future of physical and spiritual unity. ... The future of any society lies in its children. ...

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Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemmingway, termed this popular public sentiment as the "Lost Generation". The term was used to describe the generation of men and women that came of age either during the war who were "lost", meaning their generation was characterized by lost values, obsolete morals, lost belief in human progress, and a mood of despair and disappointment as a result of their war experiences ("Lost Generation"). Ernest Hemmingway portrays this "Lost Generation" through the words of his fictional character Lieutenant Henry, in A Farewell to Arms. ......

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Eric can be considered in the same light as Sheila, together they represent the younger generation, well, at least the thinking and intellectual of the younger generations. ... In the same year, Britain had a socialist government in the shape of Clement Atlee's Labour Party- there was real hope for the future socialisation and even communism was very much in vogue with the middle class and there was a feeling that we were moving out of the selfish, profit-driven world of capitalism (with it's emphasis on the individual as opposed to the collective good), towards a more caring, sharin...

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It is at this point that she begins to glimpse a bit of her future, and cleverly, McEwen foretells the tale. ... This is another glimpse of the generational shift as Briony, surrounded by mangled bodies, realizes that the bodies are so easily torn and so hard to mend after all. ... Besides using the characters to depict generational and societal change, McEwan uses the setting to underscore these points as well. ... The generational shifts, the moving from one time to another, from one level of knowledge to another, are all indicative characters in the book. ...

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Some immediate effects of the war were :It left behind a generation of Europeans that were killed or wounded. ... There was an entire generation of Europeans lost. ... The World War continued to haunt the future generations, it helped ignite one of the most significant events of the 20th century such as the Russian Revolution. ...

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Though the book is an autobiography, it mainly focuses on the course of an age, a generation of his age, not a portrait of his own life. ... "I never loved that old earth more than in those last years before the First World War, never hoped more ardently for European unity, never had more faith in its future than then, when we thought we saw a new dawning. ... He had no intention to write The World of Yesterday for himself, but to record that generation, the gigantic transformations and those memories....

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This agreement, however, was not fully carried out after the war but led to the Arabs not trusting the government in the future. ... His government, the Kingdom of Syria, would last only a few months, enjoy little domestic legitimacy, lose British support, and fall victim in July 1920 to French imperialist claims on his territory during from the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1915 Under the guise of a League of Nations' mandate, the French established a colonial presence in Syria and would remain for a generation leaving only in 1946.... The future of the Middle East would depend on the Paris P...

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The cries of "Hang the Kaiser" and "squeezing the German lemon until the pips squeak" were indicative of the desire not merely for a guarantee of future security, but for the national humiliation of Germany The Germans saw every difficulty in subsequent years as a further indignity that they alone must suffer as a result of the hated Treaty of Versailles (244). ... This German political cartoon compares Germany's future to a death sentence, as it shows Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George carrying out the execution. ...

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Soldiers are forced to put their future on hold when they are in the army and at a young age of nineteen like Paul and his friends, they have witnessed some things that no young adult should ever have to. ... It will simply try to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war (Remarque). ...

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