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Brave New World |
| The use of the atomic bomb in Japan all but
finalized the Allied victory in World War II. However, it fundamentally
changed the way people thought of war. When the Soviet union began
manufacturing their own bomb, it fundamentally changed the way people thought
of Russia, or alternative ideals in general. Paranoia spread throughout
the country, these feelings were manifested in the Red Scare, and masked
by growing prosperity. While communist witch hunts permeated the educational
system, ironically so did the civil rights movement. Americans were
pushed into an age where the clear lines of the pre-war world were disappearing
in exchange for shades of abstraction. In the 1960's there was a war with
a draft, assassinations, and again, ironically, an increasing awareness
of the wrongs of society amongst the youth. Within this section one will
learn how Dickinson reflected these national trends, and was along with
the rest of the nation struggling to identify itself in an amorphous time. |
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by David Aronson |