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Abstract
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Disillusioned by the large number of damages in World War I, Modernist writes turned away from Victorian notions of morality and propriety toward a more existential perspective. Modern art and literature show human’s shattered condition and alienation in this world. Modernists want to show this alienation in the art. In literature, they show this condition with transformation of style and language. Modernist story was often more of a stream of consciousness. Irony, satire, and comparisons were employed to point out society's ills. Modernist reader feels that the story is going nowhere.
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