Metamorphosis 'And A Room Of One's Own'

All authors during the time of Modernism had a similar way of portraying how life really was in their literature. Each piece of literature had a narrator that had a different perspective and view, which made them seem very truthful. This character is very honest and tends to speak their mind in a way that allows the audience to see how awful or great their lives are in the work of art. In Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, “The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock” by T.S. Elliot, and the excerpt “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf all have a narrator that sees the world for what it is. Joseph Conrad is a very influential writer in the movement of Modernism in literature. He also introduced new literature techniques

Alfred Prufrock” both focus on the authors’ lives and show how they saw their life through a different perspective. “Even when the poets appear in their own work, they are, characteristically, characters observed from the outside, or they are interlocutors” (Hobsbaum). They both had a character that got to see how their life was through an all-knowing perspective. This allowed the character and audience to see the reality of the life that they live whether is was cruel or amazing. Both authors used the same technique of an unconsciousness mind to help the narrator see how their life

She compares Shakespeare and his twin sister, who was just as talented, but they lead different lives because she was a woman and he was man. Virginia Woolf states, “it would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare” (25). This quote shows that women did not have the same equality as men when it came to literature. The treatment of women during this time period would not have allowed them to compete with men at all in literature. Virginia Woolf is trying to show society how life really was for a woman during this time