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Hello, in this blog I have put some   light on the 20th century  and how the 20th century was. As per A.C. ward wrote in his book. Which is in our syallbus an we have a Paper of history  so here i put some   information as per my understanding.A.C.ward wrote something like this.

 Here the author said that the human race moved through a remarkable series of upheaval during the fifty generation. 

Mastery in physical world:

In the 20th century men were masters in the physical world as well as in material  resources.

Time of  scientific revolution:

Time of the 20th century is the time of the scientific revolution which is the most powerful feature of the 20th century.

Concept of progress and regress:

progress accompanied in its later phases by an unprecedented moral and spiritual relapse. Progress and regress, both, are fruits of the Scientific Revolution .

Some invention:

There are many inventions like motorcycles, aeroplanes and many other gadgets. It is given unlimited mobility to millions

How the Victorian society as per A.C.ward

 As per A.Cward the Victorian society was hypocritical, mean, superficial,stupid.

Victorian literature:

Here A.c ward  also talks about  Victorian Literature. It was directed by mental attitude, moral ideas. In short, in Victorian Literature there is everyThing was held to open a question.

Post Victorian Literature

In the post Victorian age here A.C.ward says about post Victorian Literature, in this literature there is widespread and willing submission to the rule of experts, the voice of authority, religion.in politics, in literature, in family life.

the Victorian spirit of acceptance and affirmation was for the most part an innocent weakness, a readiness to accept phrases at face value without critical examination. Victorian faith and morality may have been unflawed on the surface, but to early twentieth century minds, they often seemed to lack any core of personally realised conviction- to be mere second- hand clothing of the mind and spirit.

Idea of permance : no more

Among the writers of 20th century there is idea of permance was changed by  the sense of universal mutablity.

Death of craft man ship 

 By the middle of the century, individual skill and craftsman's pride had almost vanished.

Era of new literature:

The time of 20th century is known as the era of New literature, as  that era many plays are written in New pattern like Though Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (1955) T.S Eliot waste land James Joyce Ulysses.this all works followed new pattern.

Two major movements

 In the 20 th century there is a two movements by writers are exist. 1. Bloomsbury group

2.fabiyan society.

About Bloomsbury group

The Bloomsbury Group—or Bloomsbury Set—was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey.

Bloomsbury Group which went some way to restoring, though with a difference, the art-for-art's sake principle.

About fabiyan society

The Fabian Society had been founded in 1884 for the 'general dissemination of knowledge as to the relation between the individual and society in its economic, ethical and political aspects', and the end-result of this dissemination was to be 'the spread of Socialist opinions, and the social and political changes consequent thereon'.