THE REVOLUTION IN MANNERS AND

MORALSBen Gunning

George Reynolds

Collaborative Thesis

During the 1920s, the younger generation rejected the values and moral code of its elders, and because the establishment of substitute values takes time, this was a decade without manners, morals, or happiness.

Section 6 Thesis

Because the younger generation had overthrown the previous moral code and couldn’t easily replace it with new manners and morals, it became obsessed with the pursuit of short-lived pleasure to fill the gap that the revolution had created, leaving people unhappy and seeing life as meaningless.

How do we substitute values?

Literature Becomes Obsessed with Sex

People Party Hard

Open Marriages Tried; Don’t work.

How do we substitute values? …

…We Can’t. Pleasure = Temporary Solution.

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