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Brave New World
What is Brave New World? ‘Brave New World’ is a novel written by Aldous Huxley which belongs to the genre of dystopian novels, which deal with a possible and frightening future community or society. Themes In the novel, the author focuses on western civilization, for which he sees a future of self-destruction symbolised by the suicide of the Savage on the …
Interior Monologue
What is the interior monologue? The interior monologue is the stylistic device used to translate the psychic phenomenon of the stream of consciousness in literature. The stream of consciousness itself is the free flow of thoughts which continuously happens in every person’s mind and the thoughts are displayed as if they bounced from past to …
D. H. Lawrence
Themes and Characteristics From D.H. Lawrence’s point of view, progress is an element of corruption for humanity. He does not believe in democracy and equality either, since he is convinced that individual personality has to be of primary importance in society. This mentality probably derives from the fact that he is the son of a miner and …
Modernism
What is Modernism? Modernism is an international movement of the 20th century which covers a wide variety of movements subversive to the romantic impulse of the previous centuries and disposed towards abstraction. Characteristics: Experimentation in order to reach sophistication, thought it also involves a tendency towardschaos. Technical display (showing off, ex: mannerism) Internal skepticism after all …
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