Modern Literature

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This paper presents an analysis of works by T.S. Eliot and Joseph Conrad in relation to their social and historical milieu. The paper explains how the works of both authors address the central questions facing society and the individual in modern times and that, while gloomy, the authors offer analyses of the world and the society around them.

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"It is certainly true that many modern authors seem to be concerned with the "gloomier" or more pessimistic view of life. However there is a good reason for this, which can only be understood once we have insight into the context and the time in which they write. The term 'modernism' is associated with the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries. Writers and artists tended to reflect on the world around them and to question the societies or the environment and governments of the time. An important part of the function of the artist is to criticize the status qua or the world in which he or she lives and to explore and search for answers to the problems that they see facing society."

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