In the twentieth century irrational thoughts have permeated into American philosophy and literature and taken the place of rationalism to guide the development of Western civilization. Especially since the mid-twentieth century, two trends of rationalism and irrationalism have conflicted with each other and produced a number of non-rational literary images. Based on these madmen, this paper finds out that the modern madness has made a subversion of classical age＇ s madness in its aspects. Changes from the rational to the irrational reflect the...
