The American Dream and the Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties is a period of time of a decade (1920’s) that took place in America. During this time, there were lots of changes in society.

First of all the role of women changed significantly. They finally got the right to vote, which meant that they could now get into political stuff, as men do.  During this decade the women also could now work in a career and have a family at the same time, before most women where only in their houses or with their husbands having fun.

Social acceptance is a very important subject in this time. Not only because of women equal to men, but people started accepting different races and minds; for example black people, other country people and homosexuals.

Technology was also important. The automobile industry for example had a very important impact in America´s society; if you think about those times, you can easily imagine the streets with those old cars. The technology in cinema was a very important advance; people started getting very influenced by movie; in the way of dressing for example.

In the art subject, besides cinema, the jazz, the surrealism and the expressionism took place. But I think music influences more, you can easily imagine the couple dancing; the man with his hat and the woman with her small hair and big dress.

An important subject in this time was alcohol prohibition. During this whole decade alcohol was prohibited, and this became a very important controversial subject.

The American dream, is a way of thinking America as a place where you can progress and be successful; working and getting richer so that you can live accurately with family and technologies. I think the Roaring Twenties played an important role because this time is where you can see the growth of progress (in technology for example) in America; leading exactly to a dream, so Americans could hope progress. But I think they don’t achieved this idea completely, even though they are a powerful country with lots of progress and influence, this will always be just a dream that is encouraging people to work and progress.