post-war disillusionment
Veterans' broken ideals
Post-war disillusionment is the collective loss of idealism that follows armed conflict, when the sacrifices and horrors of war seem to have produced nothing worth the cost.
The phrase most often describes the mood of the 1920s generation that survived World War I—the sense that patriotic slogans had been lies, that civilization was fragile, and that old certainties no longer held.
The novel captures the post-war disillusionment of young veterans returning to a changed world.
The pattern recurs: post-Vietnam disillusionment, post-Iraq disillusionment.
Each war promises purpose and delivers trauma.
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- moral injuryPsychological wound from transgression
- alienationState of being isolated
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
broken promises · nihilism · surrealism · despair · lost innocence · satire · existential crisis · PTSD · disenchantment · bitter truth · revolutionary movements · hollow victory · memoirs · apathy · quiet desperation · migration waves · reconstruction efforts · labor strikes
post-war disillusionmentwar fever
Mass appetite for armed conflict
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