Thematic Analysis Of The Novel Mrs. Dalloway And The...

Thematic Concern in Modernist Literature The modernist literature or literary modernism traces its origin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It has its roots mainly in North America and Europe. It is characterized by various authors from various genres of literature with a self-conscious break with the conventional way of writing in prose, plays, and poetry. The major modernist works of Samuel Beckett’s, â€Å"Waiting for Godot,† poem by T. S. Eliot â€Å"The Waste Land,† the novel â€Å"Mrs. Dalloway† by Virginia Woolf and â€Å"The Cannibalist Manifesto† by Oswald de Andrade, could present various themes that characterize the modernist literature including the absurd, alienation, and dislocation in society as it was seen and felt by the authors†¦show more content†¦These techniques were used to explore the suddenly messy, fragmentary nature of modern life. Most of the modernist writers wrestled with the sense that some aspects of human society were lost with the loss o f traditional values. Therefore, much of literature and art produced during this time included a sensation of searching which is the reason modernists are referred to as â€Å"the lost generation.† The play â€Å"Waiting for Godot† features two characters waiting for someone named Godot who never arrived. As they wait, they engage in various discussions where the reader encounters three more characters (Beckett). In the poem â€Å"The Waste Land,† features the speaker who wanders around a barren scene, attempting to reassemble the ruins into some plain meaning. The novel â€Å"Mrs. Dalloway† represents a stream of thoughts, detailing a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, who is a high-society woman in a post-World War I England (Woolf). â€Å"The Cannibalist Manisfesto† is to be thought of an essay that was written by Oswald de Andrade, describing how Brazil must devour other countries and cultures in order to stand as one and not be dominated by others. The theme of absurd is seen in the play â€Å"Waiting for Godot.† The Absurd in this play appears as man s response to the world apparently without importance, as well as man as a manikin controlled or menaced by invisible outside strengths (Hussain 1479). Despite the fact that the term is connected