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 * Decadence offers a world-view, in that “it is an ideological phenomenon originating in the experience of a particular group, and it became the aesthetics of the upper-middle class” (Morse 38). Changes in European industrialization and urbanization led to the development of the proletariat, nuclear family, and entrepreneurial class (38).The values of Decadence formed as an opposition to “those of an earlier and supposedly more vital bourgeoisie” (38). Aesthetically, progress turns into decay, activity becomes play instead of goal-oriented work, and art becomes a way of life (38). To individuals that observe the changes in social structure after rapid industrialization, the idea of progress becomes something to rebel against, because this real-world progress seems to be leaving them behind.
 * Morse, Margaret. “Decadence and Social Change: Arthur Schnitzler’s Works as an Ongoing Process of Deconstruction.” Modern Austrian Literature, vol. 10, no. 2, 1977, pp. 37–52. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24645707 . Accessed 7 Mar. 2024.