Age Of Anxiety In Second World War

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In the period following the end of the War to End All Wars and continuing through the middle of the twentieth century, the world found itself in what W.H. Auden dubbed the “Age of Anxiety.” The literature, art, and music of the time period, Camus, Giacometti, and Schoenberg, embodied the age and its essential struggle as described by Auden: in an increasingly industrialized world where ideological revolutions have overturned established thought and a global war has displayed the destructive capabilities of mankind, human identity is no more. After witnessing the oppression that this loss of order and identity could result in through the dictatorships of Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Benito Mussolini, the West began to re-emphasize the idea

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