Elements of Modernism in Charles Dickens’ Novels

Abstract

Modernity is a new consciousness1a fresh condition of the human mind. It refers overwhelming dislocations, cataclysmic upheavals of culture and fundamental convulsion: creative human spirit that seem to topple even the most solid and substantial of our assumptions, thus questioning an entire civilization and stimulating frenzied rebuilding also been perceived as a form of late bourgeois aestheticism and a species of realism has been further used to cover a wide variety of movements disposed towards abstract Impressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Symbolism, Imagery, Surrealism and Irony. The idea modern is also bound up with a consciousness of despair, disorder and anarchy. Hen modern individual is generally described as a weakened personality and yet experience pure, returning from material work to the service of goodness and nobility, no longer ignoring destiny. Although it is impossible to fix a particular time as the starting point of mod 1880 is taken to be it's primary stage when the critical intelligence of the English combined with the exploring sensibility of Romanticism to stimulate the work of t generation of modern writers. Since postmodernism asserts itself from around 1980, can be extended to that point and thus include other tendencies like Feminism, For Revolution, Structuralism, Hermeneutics, Linguistic Criticism, Semiotics, Post-structure