What is the Objective Correlative?

The American Painter Washington Allston first used the term "objective correlative" about 1840, but T. S. Eliot

made it famous and revived it in an influential essay on Hamlet in the year 1919. Eliot writes:

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an 'objective correlative'; in

other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that

particular emotion; such that when the… Continue

Definition:

The expression of a character's thoughts, feelings, and impressions in a narrative.

An interior monologue may be either direct or…

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Modernism, some characteristics:

Modernist writers proclaimed a new "subject matter" for literature and they felt that their new way of looking at life required a new form, a new way of writing. Writers of this period tend to pursue more experimental and usually more highly individualistic forms of writing. The sense of a changing world was stimulated by radical new developments, such as:

• new insights from the emerging fields of psychology and…

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World War I

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Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens’s novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule and all fancy is to be stamped out. The plot centers around the men and women of the town, some of whom are beaten down by the city’s utilitarian ideals and some of whom manage to rise above it. The novel was written in 1854 and was a scathing attack on then-current ideas of utilitarianism, which Dickens viewed as a selfish and at times oppressive… Continue

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