Examples Of Obscenity In The 1920's

Nowadays what’s shocking to you because times have changed we have more freedom or do we? At times it feels that we live in a society with rules and expectations. It’s a fast paced society that seems to have a mind of it’s own with many different opinions. Today’s literature for example is written differently of course it has to attract the reader’s generation, but some classics might do that as well, but differently.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover had a tremendous impact during the 1920’s it was a time when no one was ready for a book like this. Shocking many older people, but attracting the younger generation of the time and mostly women. Does society tend to put restrictions on the world of literature? When it comes to novels banning or challenging can be a very delicate subject. When the government is concerned about the novel it can be banned for example, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover obscenity was an issue, but many people have different views about what obscenity is. When a book is challenged it can be local citizens who are concerned about the material being sold or are found in their libraries.
David Herbert Lawrence was from Eastwood, a place which was know for the mining industry. Lawrence was often in poor health and he was bullied in school. He knew from a young age he wasn’t going to work in the mining
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