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The Lost Generationand the Cultural Context of…

THE GREAT GATSBY

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Germinal Statement of the Lost Generation“Every man becomes civilized between the ages

of 18 and 23. If he does not go through a civilizing experience at that time of his life, he will not become a civilized man. The men who went to World War 1 at 18 missed the civilizing…All you young people who served in the war are a lost generation. You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.”

Gertrude Stein on the American expatriate writers living in Paris after World War I

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WOLD WAR I1914-1918

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THE LOST GENERATION: FEATURES

Literary Generation of American writers with these characteristics:

• Youthful idealism .• Searched the meaning of life .• Drank a lot of alcohol.• Had frequent love affairs .• Many of the finest literary masterpieces were written during this period .• Criticized modern American materialism and values. • Lived in Paris during the Happy Twenties.• Gained prominence in twentieth century literature and created a mold for many future writers.• Many of their novels were adapted into Hollywood films.

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Common "Lost Generation" Members• The common people of the "Lost Generation"

(born from 1883 to 1900)grew up in a time when mass immigration was occurring and America was changing drastically.

• Upon the return of the soldiers from WWI, the American lifestyle was altered. Many became disillusioned and they became known as the "bad kids" and "flaming youth."

• Badboys, flappers, gangsters, and stars were all common during the “Happy Twenties."

WORLD WAR 11914-1918

10’s

GREAT DEPRESSION1929 -1937

30’s

HAPPY TWENTIES

20’s

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However, the twenties came to a close with a bang when the Stock Market crashed, ending the spirit of the 1920's. The Great Depression started in 1929 and is also present in the themes of the Lost Generation novels.

The group of writers who moved to Paris believed that America was intolerant, materialistic, and unspiritual. They helped to establish many of the styles and themes that are still used in literature today.

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themes

WORLD WAR 1 THE HAPPY TWENTIES JAZZ AGE FLAPPERS PROHIBITION (1920-1930):MAFIA THE GREAT DEPRESSION

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Crazy years between World War 1 in the 10’s and the Great Depression of the 30’sJoy of life, freedom,Jazz era,music, parties, flapers and Great Gatsby.

THE HAPPY TWENTIES

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Very modern and fashionable ladies of the twenties.

Flappers were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner,smoking, driving automobiles and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms

THE FLAPPERS

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PROHIBITION

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Wall Street Crack Down in 1929:Strong American and World finalcial crisis:Unemployment,hunger, poverty:END OF THE HAPPY TWENTIES DREAMBEGINNING OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE THIRTIES.

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

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ALL THESE REALITIES ARE REFLECTED IN THE WORKS OF THE LOST GENERATION WRITERS AND IN THE HOLLYWOOD MOVIES MADE WITH THEIR NOVELS

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Lost Generation Writers

 John SteinbeckErnest HemingwayF. Scott FitzgeraldEzra PoundWilliam Faulkner

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John Steinbeck

East of Eden. The Pearl. The grapes of Wrath

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Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea. For whom the Bell Tolls. The Snows of

Kilimanjaro

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FScott Fitzgerald

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, This side of Paradise, The great Gatsby

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The life of F. Scott Fitsgerald is like the life of Gatsby.

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Scott Fitzgeral became rich thanks to his first novels. He and Zelda went to live in Paris and lived a life of luxury, spending a lot a money, moving in big cars, organizing big parties and drinking more than recomendable.

This is the life style reflected in his novel The Great Gatsby.

The women in The Great Gatsby are flappers who drink like men and enjoy parties and sex.

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Gatsby and the Twenties

This was the style of the twenties : Young people began to test new limits with more and more outrageous forms of behavior: Wilder music, faster cars, heavy drinking and shorter skirts were just a few symptoms of this strange postwar era called The Jazz Age.

In this context live and act Gatsby and Daisy as acted and lived Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda.

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The lifestyles of young men and women in the 1920s were as shocking to their Victorian-era parents as the 1960s "hippie" generation was to Americans who came of age during World War Two, or as today’s hip-hop culture and new urban tribes are is to parents who grew up in the 1970s.

Each succeeding generation seems to be born to shock its parents, and the children of the twenties were no exception.

NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

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The Great Gatsby1st term reading

One of the Great Gatsbies

of the 21st Century

Nothing new under the sun

One of the “real”Gatsbies

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READING SCHEDULE

60 PAGES 2 PAGES A DAY = 30 DAYS 24TH OCTOBER TO 28TH NOVEMBER FINAL TEST ON Great Gatsby: 28th Nov. Partial tests at any time following the

reading schedule.

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This presentation was made possible thanks to the works of:

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Books can be dangerous.  The best ones should be labeled:"This could change your life." 

Helen Exley

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