Characters in American novels of the 20th century

type of subjectivity used to aestheticize the 20th century can be found in John Dos Passos,’ The Big Money. In this novel, Dos Pasos’ uses two major types of subjectivity to re-present the past. The first type is the use of the characters to symbolize a larger idea present in 20th century American society- the loss of humanity in the pursuit of material success and ideological aspirations. This form of subjectivity is comparable to Pound’s use of characters. However, Dos Pasos’ subjectively presents

classic novel, composed by Harper Lee in the early 1960’s, during the Great Depression. The novel presents White superiority to Black people, gender inequality and social classes as three dominant cultural assumptions that governed America, especially the Deep South, in the 20th century. These assumptions have been presented through the use of language, structure, characterisation and themes. The presence of the cultural assumptions and how they have been presented by the author has made the novel one

Throughout early 20th century, many Americans gained a feeling of superiority by being a part of the majority and by conforming to the customs and standards of the more powerful and wealthy majority, which happened to be the white, Anglo-Saxon and protestant people at the time. This conformist attitude that lasted throughout the mid-20th century not only had an effect on just the white majority; it also had an effect on minorities such as the African-American community and, as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s

A True American Character One of the major characteristics of a great novel is its potential to depict characters that are representative of a specific society, its ideology, its conventions, and its worldview. Analyzing from the perspective of characterization, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “This Side of Paradise” should be considered as one of the greatest novels ever written in the realm of American literature because emphasizing on the development of the central protagonist’s character in the novel

A novel is often defined as “an invented prose narrative that is usually long and complex and deals especially with human experience through a usually connected sequence of events.” ( ) The basis of a novel is very broad and features many different types of writing styles and genres throughout time. Novels such as House of Leaves and Survivor are written in a different way than White Noise, but all still follow the basic framework of a novel. What binds the different types of novels together is the

the course of American history, writers are influenced by early American literature and historical events, which, in turn, affect history. Certain major events of the early 20th century such as The Great Depression, Wright Brothers Airplane, and World War I lead to what critics call the Modern period. Some characteristics of Modernism are individualism, experimentation, and absurdity. One author who addressed seminal aspects of this time is F. Scott Fitzgerald. His most famous novel focuses on the

Author Peter Cameron’s novel, The Weekend is clearly indebted to modern masters; in fact it extends the tradition of gay relationships by incorporating social observations into the novel. This novel expresses how society perceives and influences gay individuals, especially during the early 20th century. Cameron uses three major characters, including Lyle, Robert and Marian harmoniously to convey this message to readers. Firstly, Cameron identifies homosexual’s lack of recognition in society by

the beauty of poetry. However, American society did not view literature in the same manner. Thus, he concludes America is a “half-savage land” in which his art and ideas are unable to flourish. To illustrate the feebleness of literature in America, Pound constructed a second section containing an allusionary autobiography using a third-person alter ego named Hugh Selwyn Mauberry. Pound used Hugh in this section to subjectively describe his experience as a 20th century poet in America. In this section

If you were to have to choose one invention that had the largest impact on everyday life during the 20th century, the invention of the automobile may just have been the most important and impactful. Although the technology existed during the late 19th century to produce an automobile, had it not been for Henry Ford and his assembly lines, the automobile may have never been brought into the hands of the general population. With the expansion of the automobile industry came an economic revolution during

because of the illustrious past it has been built upon. Challenges that were faced moving into the 20th century had the potential to propel America greatly if overcome. Stephen Crane and Mark Twain have very influential works, which help uncover the truth about America's situation without any optimism to show the reality of the ignored parts of society. Crane and Twain let readers perceive the novels how they wish, and through the acceptance of truth, some will start a change. However, the reader