Modernist literature

could actually adhere her message. Woolf shares her own personal relations of her parents and how “the man she marries would be as worthy of her as she to him”. “They were to be equal partners”, this only a dream many women during the Victorian and Modernist era dreamed of. The subjects that were spoken throughout the speech were relatable to each women, almost as a piece of her was given to the women through her words. From the disconnection and attraction to her husband, to the sexual abuse from one

embrace the abstract. Those who considered themselves Modernists and incorporated Modernism ideas in their works tended to be in search of a utopian society due to their desire to create a better world. Certain Modernists also deemed that technology and its development were the primary ways in which society could improve itself. In his work “Twilight,” John W. Campbell applies these modernism ideals; however, he seems to challenge many Modernists’ thinking by mocking certain major aspects of their

in both science and technology in America and from this, the Modernist movement was born. The Modernist period marks a clear turn from the way old traditions in writing. Influenced by the progress made in science and technology and the suffering caused by the Great Depression and World War 2, the Modernist era brought together in perfect harmony the sense of “contradictory impulses” in the midst of joy and pain (Leubering). The Modernist movement brought along

Literary modernism is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction. William Faulkner greatly represents modernism period in Literature. In William Faulkner’s story, “A Rose for Emily” starts when Emily Grierson dies and her funeral. Emily, the main character, attempts to resist the progression of time and modernization in the American South during the post-civil war era. The story is read like a townsperson is telling the story of Emily

rejection of tradition. Writers in this time era began to question the authority and tradition that seemed to be the foundation of America. Modernists destroyed the American Dream. The modernist group ask themselves three questions. Who are we? Where are we going? What values guide us to our human identity? The song “American Idiot” is comparable to the Modernist era because it is about rejecting the ways of America. The first segment of lyrics are: “Don't wanna be an American idiot. Don't want a nation

from the standard ways of representing characters, and violating the traditional syntax and coherence of narrative language” (Abrams A Glossary of Literary Terms). Modernists also contrast the stable social order traditionally present in novels, through a thematic representation of an immense panorama of futility and anarchy. Modernist writing became prominent after WWI when the lost generation emerged, the generation of men and women who came of age during WWI and became disillusioned by the vast

Cow’s Skull: Red, White and Blue Georgia O’Keeffe once said “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.”(2017) Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Georgia O’Keeffe is known as the mother of modern art because of her amazing paintings. O’Keeffe painted everything

altered the way literature was written. Society went from constantly writing within the lines to branching out and questioning what had once been considered the ‘norm’. The unacceptable concepts that had once been frowned upon had transformed themselves into a full blown movement by the name of Modernism. Modernism was able to break free from traditional and stereotypical values, and apply a new way of thinking to the numerous aspects of the real world. The modernist movement surfaced

people to reassess the way they thought about the world and the direction it was heading. Modernist authors many of whom fought in the war saw the world transforming before their eyes; they witnessed entire cities shift towards modern day industrialization. Many authors saw this change as a movement away from the common man and as a migration towards machines and equipment. This is evident in many prominent modernist works of the time which were predominantly written in the first person to show these

old world ended." (Hurt and Wilkie 1444). The importance of the exact dates of the Modernist period are not so relevant as the fact that new ideas were implemented in the era. Ideas that had never before been approached in the world of literature suddenly began emerging