A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hollywood Blacklist, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Danforth
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Background: literature & culture in the aftermath of ww ii interest in psychology. Return to community values: world meaningless + impossible to grasp (new technology of warfare in ww already baffled people, but holocaust + atomic bomb a few years after. "great war" or "war to end (all) war(s) , the family + community appeared controllable: within all of this perceived "craziness," community values appeared to be a needed "stabilizer" Alienation of the individual, inner exile, loneliness. America as less hopeful after wwii than before. Little faith in political action & reform; conservatism (people needed something to hold on to + not open towards experiments after upheavals of 2 world wars, a major economic crisis, etc. ) Su + propaganda on each side attempted at preparing people for the threat of the "other side: at the time, this threat seemed + was real, people also always feared that the. Such fears do have an impact on people.
