Briti kirjandus 20.-21. sajand kordamisküsimused vastustega
students and intellectuals.Growing tension-Berlin wall-symbol of prison. Castro power in Cuba.
Cuban missile crisis (Krushchec). Rising nuclear threat.
Victories and losses. On a larger scale: opportunity to shake up the ,,old society" in many social
aspects incl. Methods of education: personal, political freedom, sexual freedom, free love
Liberation world-wide Liberation world-wide: fall of colonial regime in many counties, India,
South-Africa. Students opposind the war in Vietnam. Pacifism, shift from conservatism to liberalism
and back. Accessible education, women's lib-important political right. Technological advances. Tv,
computers, world opening, communicaion, connections
New Consciousness: mass culture, counter-culture, cult of personality.
New-consciousness: revolution not on poverty but on affluence-not primitive layers fighting for
basic needs but intellectuals struggling for inner freedom.