1. CONSCIENCE
1.1. atrocities of war haunt soldiers & civilians
1.1.1. SOLDIERS
1.1.1.1. physicaly impaired
1.1.1.1.1. can't work
1.1.1.1.2. seen as 'monsters'
1.1.1.2. mentally impaired
1.1.1.2.1. "back to their lives" = IMPOSSIBLE
2. VALUES
2.1. DEATH of Victorian mindset
2.1.1. being strict had not saved them from the horrors of WAR
2.2. NO RESPECT for the older generation
2.2.1. held responsible for the horrors of WAR
2.2.1.1. DISTRUST
3. ECONOMICAL
3.1. quick development
3.1.1. many jobs are now obsolete
3.2. JOB crisis
3.2.1. Many soldiers came home as physically or mentally invalid
3.2.2. Women had taken up men's jobs to keep the economy going
3.2.2.1. NO INTENTION TO STEP BACK
3.2.2.1.1. rise of FEMINISM
3.3. the STABILITY and PROSPERITY of the past are GONE
4. EMPIRE
4.1. colonial unrest
4.1.1. colonised populations were (and will be) called to battle
4.1.2. white supremacy was starting to spread as a cancer
4.2. TRANSFORMATION (and slow DECLINE) of the notion of IMPERIAL HEGEMONY
4.2.1. NEW PROBLEMS
4.2.1.1. The "white man can't take care of himself, how can he bring civilisation to the world?
4.2.1.2. DROP in FINANCIAL AND HUMAN RESOURCES
4.2.1.2.1. INVESTMENTS dropped BUT COSTS remain huge!
4.2.1.3. the Empire starts to fade into a "Comonwealth of Nations" (until the 50s it will still hold)
5. variable and different from what we thought
6. FAITH
6.1. in
6.1.1. progress
6.1.1.1. former belief that progress and human science could sweep away all human misery = DEAD!
6.1.2. SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
6.1.2.1. NEW DISCOVERIES
6.1.2.1.1. PSYCHE /SAIKI/
6.1.2.1.2. weapons
6.1.2.1.3. PHYSICS
6.1.2.1.4. DISCOVERIES ABOUT THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
6.1.2.2. proof of human powerlessness
6.1.3. GOD
6.1.3.1. could a just god allow for this mahem to happen?
7. **CULTURAL**
7.1. BROKEN REALITY
7.1.1. OLD MODELS can't represent it
8. Subconscious = you can't even claim knowledge and control of your own mind
9. NEED FOR SOMETHING NEW
9.1. REJECTION of
9.1.1. TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES
9.1.2. OMNISCENT NARRATOR
9.1.3. TRADITIONAL POV
9.2. EXPERIMENTS with
9.2.1. NEW METHODS
9.2.2. NEW WAYS TO EXPRESS CONSCIOUSNESS
9.2.2.1. SUBJECTIVE
9.2.3. NEW IDEA OF PLOTS
9.2.3.1. NO FIXED STRUCTURE
9.2.3.1.1. Past and present overlap and dissolve in a psychological perspective
9.2.4. TIME
9.2.4.1. INNER vs EXTERNAL
9.2.4.2. time cannot reveal the TRUTH about characters
9.2.5. CHARACTERS
10. STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
10.1. TERM coined by US psychologist William James ( 1890 *Principles of Psychology*)
10.2. The continuous, overlapping flow of thoughts, images, and sensations that characterises the human mind.
10.3. expressed by
10.3.1. interior monologue
10.3.1.1. =
10.3.1.1.1. IMMEDIATE
10.3.1.1.2. DISCONNECTED
10.3.1.1.3. DEEP DIVES INTO THE CHARACTER'S MIND
10.3.1.1.4. LACKS CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
10.3.1.1.5. NO RULES OF PUNCTUATION
10.3.1.1.6. NO FORMAL LOGICAL ORDER
10.3.2. FREE DIRECT SPEECH
10.3.3. FREE INDIRECT SPEECH