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War is been existing right from the late 17th century, but then it wasn't war that involved arm ammunitions. It was on paper. It was a war of the intellects. The poets and the literates were the soldiers of that war. Though this war did not suffer any blood and gore, it did drain their energies. Today we live in the 21st century. Our last generation has experienced the Great War, the aftershocks of which are still, being experienced by us.

The beginning:

Europe was victim of the war. Millions perished and left their deadly ghosts behind. Generations will be haunted by the images of the most devastating hostilities. Paul Valery, European literary giant called the early 20th century the beginning of the age of anxiety. However, another great literate Paul Tillich believed that the mid 20th century was the real age of anxiety as the anxiety infected even the greatest achievement of contemporary Europeans in literature, art, and philosophy. The war had contaminated the mind of the people. They had become the victims of disquiet.

Growth of anxiety:

Globalization grew faster and faster thereby causing the problem of new age. People began to experience the hardships of the busy life. Competition and struggle become the necessities for survival. These problems instigated anxiety. During this the people witnessed a number of distressful events like the rise of dictatorship, the Vietnam War, the Cambodian starvation, the environmental deterioration and many other such tribulations.

Growth of science and decline of philosophy:

With the sudden spurt of science and technology, philosophy lost its position. People earlier found peace of mind with the concepts of the art of living. People began to look for reason in every small detail. Philosophy became realistic. G.E Moore, a British realist, attacked the use of language, which he believed was meaningless, he also had to attack the idealistic view set by the earlier philosophers. People began to loose the sense of security they previously attained via belief. This grew their agony thereby raising the problems of stress and distress.

Sarcasm, criticism and frustration become the very part of humanity's existence. People grew indifferent and began to succumb to the demands of the modern living. They developed expectations from themselves and other. Thus, under the above circumstances was born anxiety, and that's what may be defined as the age of anxiety.