THE CLASH OF “LOST GENERATION” AND THE “NEW GENERATION”: THE PROBLEM OF NEW HERO IN THE NOVELS “REJECTED GUEST” AND “VERY HEAVEN” BY ALDINGTON

Abstract

The offsprings of the “Lost generation”, which appeared after the First World War, face the danger of the same loss. The offsprings of the heroes who let their lives in war or who returned, but without any motivation or finding no continuation of life, collide the danger of approaching war, the same alarm for future sense of despiration are born. Aldington refers to the lost generation and its offsprings, having a tendency to point on the common things and differences, the possible changes of the psychological world in the result of ideological clashes, the stamp of “loss, being prevalent or transient”. Aldington nominates a new image of hero in the person of Noris and Heilin, which forms a new way of thinking and cultural vision, that is not repeating the experience of past and prevent the threatening war, deny the Victorian traditions and the ruling society and build a new model of life.