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  • Essay / Modernism in Modern Literature - 2138

    Modernism has its origins in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The continents responsible for its origin are mainly Europe and North America. With experimentation, modernists attempted to break the old conventions of the Victorian era and create an entirely new set of models for art and literature. Modernism was born after the First World War. It was a “war to end all wars” and it instilled a great sense of horror in people because they had virtually no idea where it would lead. Writers began to adopt new forms of writing styles. They cared little about nature and history, they wrote more about the alienation of the individual. This alienation arose from the cold scenario that individuals faced after the First World War. Modernist writers include Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, DH Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, TS Eliot and Ezra Pound. The best example of modernist literature is “The Waste Land” by TS Eliot. He is confronted with almost conversational interludes and biblical consonances. A landmark event was the publication of Ulysses by the Irish writer James Joyce in 1922 in the development of modernism in literature. The controversial novel deals with the events of a day in the lives of three Dubliners through a technique known as stream of consciousness, which ignores sentence structure and incorporates fragments of thoughts. Another eminent writer, DH Lawrence, speaks with the greatest fearlessness when dealing with sex. His frank treatment of the physical site of sexual love can be seen in his novels "The Rainbow" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover." Both of these novels were banned in England at the same time they were published...... middle of article...... the contrast between soul and body which dominates in the original opening is ultimately reduced to relative insignificance. Clifford is delighted when he holds Connie's hand. His position is ambivalent, because he recognizes that contrary to thought, carnal reality ends in death. Little by little, we see a long-distance spread in the relationship of Connie Reid and Clifford Chatterley. Later, while the story is old, a few chapters we see a new character, Olive Mellors, introduced to us, who is a gamekeeper. His distant attitude and nobility attract Connie close to him and after several meetings, they develop a physical bond. Connie feels connected to Olive on a deep sensual level. So in the end, author DH Lawerence leaves it up to his readers to decide the mysterious ending, whether Olive Mellors will successfully divorce and whether he will be able to get his love back..