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something written/created to teach a moral or a lesson. the author states the moral or lesson very clearly. outright easy to understand - didactic something written only for its own beauty. if there is a moral or lesson it is up to the reader to decide what it is. not trying to teach a moral or a lesson. harder to understand and requires more work. - aesthetic didactic stories - The North Wind and The Sun, The Tortoise and The Geese, and Godfather Death. aesthetic stories - Hills like White Elephants why did literature change from being mostly didactic to mostly aesthetic? - because the world was becoming more compex an American man trying to get a girl to get an abortion? - hills like white elephants a way of living life in which morality does not play a role. if there is a God it is an uncaring God. you do whatever you have to do to stay alive and be happy. - existentialism civil war - shocked the nation. America was the supposedly "perfect country" Charles Darwin's origin of species - shocked the nation it taught us to believe in the evolution theory and to look away from God and Christianity and doubt God's existence. world war 1 - shocked the world. modern warfare like tanks and machine guns, chemical warfare like gases etc. this is the depth of mans rs began to say why bother putting morals in our