Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness - A Modernist Novel :: Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness - A Modernist NovelModernism began as a movement in that tardy 19th, early 20th centuries. Artists started to feel restricted by the styles and conventions of the Renaissance period. Thusly came the dawn of Modernism in many another(prenominal) divers(prenominal) forms, ranging from Impressionism to Cubism. In order to research new venues of creativity Modernists tinkered with the perception of veridicality. During the Renaissance, the depiction of a subject was very straight forward. A painting had to play like what it represented. The truth was absolute and unspoiled and wrong were clearly defined. For Modernists, the world is much more than obscure. In Impressionist paintings, lines are non definite and things run for to blur together. Faces ordinarily do non differentiate one soulfulness from another.Cubism takes the opposite route for the same effect. Solid lines are drawn, but the painting itself is usually more abstract (as with Picasso). At propagation it can be difficult to discern what some paintings are supposed to represent. Bright, vivid colors infuse the pieces with more passion. The contrast mingled with those not thoroughly defined objects and the punch of emotion gives cubism its personality and vitality.Many believed that Modernist works were not art because they did not always go steady like real life. But what is real life? A new outlook on reality was taken by Modernists. What is true for one person at one time is not true for another person at a different time. Experimentation with perspective and truth was not hold to the canvas it influenced literary circles as well.Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness is a great example of a Modernist unused because of its general obscurity. The language is thick and opaque. The novel is littered with words such as inconceivable, inscrutable, gloom. Rather than defining characters in black and white terms, like good and bad, t hey entire novel is in different shades of gray. The unfolding of events takes the reader between many a foggy bank the action in the book and not just the language echoes tones of gray.In Modernist literature, much like painting, there is experiment with form narration style, tone, plot line. Instead of having Kurtz tell his story, or Marlow recite the tale of his journey, the actual narrator in the Heart of Darkness is an unknown passenger on the Nellie.Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness - A Modernist Novel Joseph Conrad Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrads Heart of Darkness - A Modernist NovelModernism began as a movement in that late 19th, early 20th centuries. Artists started to feel restricted by the styles and conventions of the Renaissance period. Thusly came the dawn of Modernism in many different forms, ranging from Impressionism to Cubism. In order to explore new venues of creativity Modernists tinkered with the perception of reality. During the Renaissance, the depiction of a subject was very straight forward. A painting had to look like what it represented. The truth was absolute and right and wrong were clearly defined. For Modernists, the world is much more obscure. In Impressionist paintings, lines are not definite and things tend to blur together. Faces usually do not differentiate one person from another.Cubism takes the opposite route for the same effect. Solid lines are drawn, but the painting itself is usually more abstract (as with Picasso). At times it can be difficult to discern what some paintings are supposed to represent. Bright, vivid colors infuse the pieces with more passion. The contrast between those not well defined objects and the punch of emotion gives cubism its personality and vitality.Many believed that Modernist works were not art because they did not always look like real life. But what is real life? A new outlook on reality was taken by Modernists. What is true for one person at one time is not true for another person at a different time. Experimentation with perspective and truth was not confined to the canvas it influenced literary circles as well.Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness is a great example of a Modernist novel because of its general obscurity. The language is thick and opaque. The novel is littered with words such as inconceivable, inscrutable, gloom. Rather than defining characters in black and white terms, like good and bad, they entire novel is in different shades of gray. The unfolding of events takes the reader between many a foggy bank the action in the book and not just the language echoes tones of gray.In Modernist literature, much like painting, there is experimentation with form narration style, tone, plot line. Instead of having Kurtz tell his story, or Marlow recite the tale of his journey, the actual narrator in the Heart of Darkness is an unknown passenger on the Nellie.