Disillusionment Era Vs Progressive Era

“Disillusionment Era and Progressive Period”

According to Oxfords Dictionaries Disillusionment is “A feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be” and Progressive is totally the opposite as the word references is progress, advance, or innovation. This two words also apply to society and in this particular case applied on how society felt before and after World War I. People during this period of time experienced both eras which had people completely tired from being well and later devastating after World War I, physically and psychological .

With this in mind, the era of disillusionment after World War I is completely different from the Progressive period before it. People

experienced the horrors of WWI and they did not see the point of the war, they said nothing god came from it. There was a tremendous disillusionment among society, especially from educated people. Americans question U.S. involvement It was the greatest catastrophe in human history, nine million people died. In the other hand the progressive era was a movement to cure the ills of America society, was an era of reform for the government, social justice, education, and society as a whole. Progressivism began as a social movement and in no time it grew into a political movement. Progressives also contributed to the homefront of World War I.
Disillusionment brought a negative outlook to society. Literature was one of the things that got affected by WWI. Authors started writing sad, poetry of previous wars and how the world truly was, instead of heroism and romanticism. Sports also contributed to it, The Chicago White Sox lost the series to the Cincinnati Reds, because they decided to throw the game for money and people got upset because baseball was the sport of America. Society also changed, their overall mindset and beliefs were shattered and shifted drastically. Unlike the disillusionment era, progressive era was the light and hope for society. Many changes occur in the country, the government lowered import duties, the creation of the income tax, contributed to the final push for women’s suffrage.
At the end of WWI, people were disillusioned with the government, lifestyle, society, values, morality and the reasons why the United States had entered the WWI. Status and life was in decline. What progressivism had brought to America, the war took it and people were losing hope. War had achieved nothing and it did not ended in anything good for nobody instead carrier more problems. They say that people learn by making mistakes, but at this point I am afraid to think that as a society we have not learned anything, from the first or second world war. We keep getting into flights that are not ours, with unclear purposes. Maybe one day we would learn and the day our country would become even a better country.

Cites

"Definition of Disillusionment in English:." Disillusionment: Definition of Disillusionment in Oxford Dictionary (American English). Web. 24 Dec. 2015.