bai thao luan tieng anh

Group two:
Nguyen Thi Dao
Do Hong Nhung
Dinh Thi Du
Dao Thi Hoa Sim
Chu Thi Len
Hoang Quynh Trang
Phan Thi Hoa
Bui Thi Giang
Phan Thi Oanh
Pham Thi Kim Oanh
Hoang Thi Hien
Nguyen Thi Tham
Doan Thi Ha
Tran Thi Sen
Ly Anh Ngoc
Nong Phuong Hong
Vi Thi Khanh Tuyet
Nguyen Phuong Linh
Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong
Nguyen Thi Hoi

Three parts of our presentation
I. History and literature in the 20
th

century
II. The novelist: Joseph Conrad
III. The novelist: Arthur Conan Doyle

Social
background
Characteristics

Social background
The British faced 2 far bigger wars, World
War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-
1945) in which she was a major participant.
The wars killed a dozen of millions of people
in Europe and Britain had to suffer heavy
losses of human lives and property.


The world wars’ influence to Britain

Social background
•
By this time, the United States, also her
former colony had become the strongest
economic and military power of what was
called the capitalist block, and Britain had
to accept her second porition behind the
U.S.
 All of events influenced to the literature in
20th century

Characteristics of this age
•

The Darwin’s theory about man’s origin
made the society anxious.This leg to
pessimism trend in literature
•
Writers shift of focus.
•
The explosion in the kind and trend of the
novel.
•
The introduction of the short story ,a new
genes of fiction

•
The short story is a novel in miniature .It
has all the elements of a novel but in a
smaller proportion.
•
It has a plot
•
It has fewer characters
•
It has a climax
Characteristics of the short story