Illustrate the reason why Modernism broke with the Victorian standards: what was changed?

• There were a political and economical crisis with the lost of power of Great Britain;

• There was a religious crisis with the Darwin's Theory about the natural selection and the metaphor of Nietzsche: “God is dead”, that underlines the collapse of everything;

• There was a progress crisis, because science and industry had not produced a better world;

• The idea of space and time changed: space and time didn't exist as separated;

• In litterature the narrative tecnique changed: there was no more the omniscient narrator, but there was the shift of point of view;

• In philosophy Mr. Bergson affirmed that present is the result of our past memories and future expectations.