History Mystery
The territory of which Orwell served as a British Imperial Officer.
Burma
These were handed out on the streets, and were public declarations of views or motives
Manifestos
Joined the Royal Navy in 1940, which prompted him to write Lord of the Flies
William Golding
An Irish author who made stream-of-consciousness writing popular; famous for Araby
James Joyce
“When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.”
Shooting an Elephant
These two pivotal, devastating things happened during this era
World War I and World War II
A narrative form that tracks a character’s internal thoughts
Stream-of-consciousness
An Irish playwright; known for The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Polish-English writer; known for Heart of Darkness which critiqued imperialism
Joseph Conrad
“I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.”
Shooting an Elephant
A political ideology of extending a nation’s rule over other countries
Imperialism
The major movement of poetry; didn’t use excess words to describe the "thing"
Imagism
An Irish poet who later served as an Irish senator for the free state
W. B. Yeats
Eric Blair, the author of 1984, Animal Farm, and wrote to “expose truths”
George Orwell
“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity…”
Araby
The process of a country withdrawing from a former colony
Decolonization
Writers who questioned traditional beliefs, religion, morality
Modernists
The Waste Land is his most famous work; he converted to Christianity
T. S. Eliot
Wrote screenplays of his plays, My Fair Lady won an Academy Award
George B. Shaw
“Under no conditions could she remember his face.”
The Demon Lover
A name for the people living after WWI who disillusioned by reality
The "Lost Generation"
A movement developed after WWII; focused on irony, skepticism, critique
Post-Modernism
A British writer, Theologian, and Christian apologist
C. S. Lewis
Came from a wealthy family; Brave New World was his most famous work
Aldous Huxley
“Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance.”
Araby