to the lighthouse

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Modernism and Modernist writers in general:

As a concept 'Modernism' it is difficult to define. In its broadest definition it refers to not only the changes in literature but also the radical changes remarks in Europe and America before 1914 (the Great War)

In 1910 King Edward died and George V come to throne. Some new young poets like Gregorians became successful with their works.

This time is a transition from Victorian novel to the Modern novel. So, we cannot exactly separate the authors and their works, as they are Victorian or Modern. The novels written in this period can be titled in three groups. The novels written in old Victorian tradition, the other group is the novels that were not significant with their language, style and form; but actually analysing people's psychologies and their inner life and contradictions and the third group is that gives more importance to its form and style as well as the characters' psychologies, their inner life, conflicts and their relation to the real world. (Theme and art are both important) The most significant authors of these type novels are James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. D. H. Lawrence suits the second group. He is said to be 'profoundly traditional as well as profoundly mode

Virginia not only tells about her own life but also emphasizes the relationships between her mother and father.

There are many other similarities and differences in all aspects between the novels, authors and the way they perceive literature and their view of life.

Flash back techniques in the middle of present- time narration confuses time references.1 In To the Lighthouse the parts are divided in to three unequal parts and also the time they cover and in each part is just contrasting with the length of the passages.

As I said before; modernism in English Literature did not affect all the writers. Also, most modern writers were actually not English. Definitely d. h. Lawrence was English but his father was Nottinghamshire miner. Very few writers had traditional university education. Other Modernists were coming from different cultural and ethnic groups. Virginia Woolf was also English but she was coming from a Victorian family, her father was an academic had a big library in which Virginia could read books at her young age.

Virginia Woolf was mostly used her experiment and for her people's feeling were more important than anything. She used internal monologues and stream of consciousness technique in her novel. Time concept was also significant in two novels. In both novels narration shifted from one to another like Mrs. Morel to Paul or Mrs Ramsey to Mr. Ramsey her child and Lily Briscoe.

Both stories; D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse were written almost at the periods, 1913 and 1927; respectively.

rn' His earlier work, Sons and Lovers, is more traditional. In Virginia Woolf's works personal experiences forms the whole substa

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