World Civilization
...her and that universe was a giant sphere that contained planets, galaxies, and solar systems. Some of the great literary works during this period were affected by the revolutionary developments in science, such as Einstein’s theory. Some of which include the early novels of Ernest Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises and poetry from F. Scott Fitzgerald with The Waste Land. Another literary great was Virginia Woolf whose writings were focused in part on the imposed oppression of women of the ruling class of Britain. George Orwell, who wrote Animal Farm, insisted that all political movements were corrupt. He recommended that other writers only write on what they themselves had experienced. Trends in art were parallel to those in literature. Salvador Dali, whose explorations of the mind created ridiculous, fantastic and usually depressed images. Music, along with the other arts, was more radical and ...