Edwardian Era Synthesis Asher P.3 T.5

Edwardian Era Synthesis

Morality is within every human being on this planet, but deep down inside of the heart. Everything we do on this planet requires some sort of thoughts that might involves morality, we have the selection choices between moral and amoral, but at the same time choosing amoral would consider to be immoral to the society. But everything is different and view differently during the war time, Edwardian Era began in the early 18th century and lasted until prior to World War II. This was the era of World War I and age of Socialism, violence was seen as a righteous movement or way to justify during the time, violence as retribution was the key mindset during the era. War brought changes upon society, human's dark side and immoral nature became more moral and righteous to the society because of the war. Enemies were dehumanized by the propaganda and media around the world, moral was no longer part of the thinking process when dealing with dehumanized beasts. People used violence as the stepping stone to handle situation, shifted away from the rational thinking and logic, instead, brutality and aggression played a huge role at the time supporting violence. Violence as retribution also had an impact on the artist and literature during the era, writers were writing more about the human's heart and the immorality of the human nature. For example, Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad fully portrait the darkness of human heart at the time. In the book, there was a part where Marlow encounter two native women knitting in a room, he felt uncomfortable and judged the whole population by the appearance of these two women. This show the prejudices within the human heart and the shallowness we human are.