U.S. History 1 question PLEASE HELP?

Modernism:

Here's an outline:

Newtonian Physics is kicked out by findings of Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and Max Planck which established a new relative universe model wherein everything wasn't so structured like in Newton's "world machine."

This led to a new notion in society which was taken to extreme measures by the nihilist Friedrich Nietzsche. He believed that life had no meaning as God didn't exist and furthermore Christianity limited the accomplishments of society. Many people were starting to feel similarly--they were uncertain about their existence and purpose.

These sentiments led to various artistic, literary, and musical movements, (very creatively) known as modernism. Due to the new lack of existential certainty, modernism is regarded as more pessimistic than realism. Here is a list of characteristics of modernism (courtesy <http://www.buzzle.com/articles/modernism-vs-realis... :

"It has a pessimistic tone regarding various issues dealt in the writing.

It portrays reality of life, without any romanticism or much optimism as in the Victorian or Romantic literature.

Variety and complexity in novels made modernistic writing difficult to comprehend.

Numerous themes of modern literature included the search within self, the inner dilemma human beings face, questions regarding existence of God in the modern world, overwhelming technological changes and the struggle of man to fit in urban life.

Many characters and multiple experiences of people in the story.

It uses tools like "stream of consciousness", self experience for representing inner mind, thoughts and views about life.

No central heroic figure in the story.

Not sequential and connected events unlike realism literature, with fixed time lines.

Questions deeply about isolation of an individual in a society fragmented by growth and development. Characters in modern literature were usually from middle class families."

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-George