Modernisme, 'Revolutionary Road' og 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

The modernism indicates a literary period that started in the 1890s and ended in the 1930s. Due to that the time period started approximately after World War 1, significantly many of the art pieces show signs of a fragmented society because of the effects of World War 1. The time period is also characterized by a breach of rules and the search for new forms of expression. Some ways of expression were through art, like poetry, paintings, and short stories, in which there were different styles and ways of for example writing and thinking. One of the styles of writing was with the use of the “Stream of consciousness” style, which was a method of writing in which the narrator’s thoughts and feelings passing through their mind were represented in the text. The technique, interior monologue, was a “Stream of consciousness” technique developed in the early twentieth century by some authors. The technique involved an attempt to transcribe a character’s monologue in his mind filled with thoughts and feelings. You can almost always identify that the “Stream of consciousness” style is shown when the writer shows a lack of traditional syntax, punctuating and logical connections. On the contrary, it wasn’t only writers who had new and different ways of expressing themselves, the thinkers also thought in new ways. People thought more about life, and what the meaning with life was because they began to reflect more about their existence, and this evolved in the exact way of thinking called existentialism. This way of thinking involves us humans being different from other animals because we can think and act on our own, and we also have the ability to reflect on our lives.