Victorian Morality and The Lost Generation

Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of people living at the time of Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901). Victorian morality can describe any set of values that espouse sexual restraint, low tolerance of crime and a strict social code of conduct. This is shown in the text were we see their talk about abortion as a taboo due tot he fact that they never mention the word "abortion" or "baby" but refers to it as "it".

The lost generation was a group of writers who arose after world war 1, as a rebellion against pre world war 1 moral values. They rebelled against the victorian moral compass, and did so in their litterature. They resented the forced exuberance of the 20's that followed the world war, and tried to keep their litterature as trimmed,slim, realistic and free from the extravagant poetic constructions of the victorian era as possible. The values presented in the novels, short stories and plays, of theese writers were values such as: Hedonism, individualism and a cosmology, that perceieved the past world and life as pointless. Prominent writers include Hemingway and Dos Passos.