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Modernism and Postmodernism

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This essay aims to identify the similarities and differences between modernism and postmodernism. It combines information from many aspects of views. It is very helpful for those English major students. It is very worthwhile researching it. While it is not very good in that it did not contain the representatives of modernism. So it is welcome to readers offer recommendations for this essay. Let us read trogether and make great progress at the same time. And postmodernism is the literary school i like most, because it reflects the chracters of many literary schools. I like reading novels, poems, and dramas. Which school do you like best? Contact and tell me, let's make some discussion and analysis together.unemotional, while Realism story shows the feeling of characters. Their similarities and differences reveal in the story "To build the fire," by naturalism writer Jack London, and "The red badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane who wrote Realism literature.

One of the similarities between Naturalism and Realism was that they didn't mention God a lot in the story. People at this time viewed God as useless and just an idealistic symbol that would never rescue them from the concrete society that they were facing. In the story "To build the fire," God never and Napoleonic War. People suffered from their misfortune and got depressed from the situation on which nothing had left but misery after the war. Likewise, in America, Realism and Naturalism came out in response to the miserable war, the Civil War. People lost their houses, families, properties and other things that they used to have. They realized the Romanticism on which emphasized imagination never worked to their wretched life and God would never salvage them from the misfortunate life. Because the two literature genres appeared at this hard time, they were often written i

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