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Compose a 2500 words essay on Harold Rosenburg called Modernist Art the tradition of the new. Discuss what you find new in Virginnia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, Conrad's Heart of Darkness and LP Hartle

Compose a 2500 words essay on Harold Rosenburg called Modernist Art the tradition of the new. Discuss what you find new in Virginnia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, Conrad's Heart of Darkness and LP Hartleys' The Go Between. Needs to be plagiarism free!

Moreover, their belonging to middle class also gave expression to many issues faced by middle class only. Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse”, Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and L.P Hartley’s “The Go-Between” depict the modernist aspects as all of these works employ new forms of expressions or we can say that they experimented with forms.

A novel consists of two things—one is the actual facts and figures of the story or the events in the time and space. and the other is the way of presenting those events or the style of the novel (Sherry 1971). The material facts of “Heart of Darkness” by Conrad is very simple and straight forward as Marlow is on the board the ship, “Nellie” along with the director, the lawyer and the accountant. He narrates his experiences of the Dark Continent. The experience of being appointed as captain of steamer ship bound for Congo. He first reaches the company’s station, then central station and finally the inner station where he meets Kurtz. Kurtz, appointed to make a report for “International Society for Suppression of Savage Customs”, dies in the hands of Marlow on board the steamer. Marlow returns to Brussels, meets Kurtz’s girl friend and delivers her papers and her portrait as painted by Kurtz in his hut in Congo jungle.

Now, the above material can be presented in plain and straight sequences of events but Conrad’s narrative technique is quite different to the prevailing techniques of that time. In the novel, all the threads of the events are in the hands of Marlow, as he is the only narrator of the story. Conrad is regarded as the “novelist of extremes” (Guetti 1967). His heroes always remain in isolation facing a difficult choice between betraying the just cause and ruining their own self. Kurtz, the protagonist of the novel, “Heart of Darkness” falls prey to

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