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This 3 page paper discusses Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse" and why it can be considered a modernist novel. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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book to illustrate modernist techniques. Modernist Writing Modernist literature can be seen as a reaction against Romanticism and a venture into the realm of everyday, mundane matters (Modernist literature,
2006). It doesnt idealize its subjects as romantic literature does; it is often pessimistic and dark (Modernist literature, 2006). It cannot be called "realistic," either, because it "goes
beyond the limitations of the realist novel with its concern for larger factors such as social or historical change" (Modernist literature, 2006). Modernist novels often use the "stream of
consciousness" technique to address these themes (Modernist literature, 2006). Some of the characteristics of modernist works include techniques such as "discontinuous narrative and classical allusions"; while thematically these works
address the "breakdown of social norms and cultural sureties, alienation of the individual ... [and] dislocation of meaning and sense from its normal context" (Modernist literature, 2006). A concise definition
of modernist literature, then, might be that it is writing that seeks to portray life as it really is, by observing people who are imperfect, against a background of larger
social issues. The techniques the author uses vary, of course. With these criteria in mind, lets examine To the Lighthouse. First, the novel opens just before the start
of the First World War. The first war of the modern era represents a vast social issue and a great change in all human affairs. The war took
the lives of an entire generation of young men from France, Germany, England and Russia; millions of lives were suddenly gone. The First World War really marks the dividing
line between an older, more gracious age and the technological world we live in now. Using WWI as the background of the novel marks it strongly as a modernist
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