Britain 1901 america

Question 1

Describe the situation in Britain around the year 1900. Give at least three characteristics.

Answer 1

It was the most powerful nation in the world, while there was still a clear class-system. The industrial revolution had a lot of impact

Question 2

On what do writers focus their attention?

Answer 2

The attention is mostly fixed upon the fate of the working class-people

Question 3

Mention at least three prosewriters.

Answer 3

Graham Greene and james Joyce

Question 4

Mention two playwrights.

Answer 4

George Bernard Shaw

Question 5

Describe the situation in the USA after World War I. Give at least three characteristics.

Answer 5

The Roaring Twenties made place for pessimism and disillusion when the Great depression happened. Mostly because of the USA being a new world power

Question 6

Mention prosewriters who write on American themes.

Answer 6

John Steinbeck

Question 7

Mention one prosewriter who concentrates on cosmopolitan themes.

Answer 7

Ernest Hemingway