Elliott The Romantic movement was engulfed with writers developing their intense passion into written works. Frederick Douglass wrote, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" during the year 1845 and in which he describes his tortured years as a slave and the courage and determination it took for him to overcome and succeed in his life. This piece remains a large part of the Romantic Period as described by the Norton Anthology as a "narrative constructed by a man who has finally, arduously, discovered his self-hood recapitulates the process of that discovery: a process with language at its heart." The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces does a gr ...view middle of the document...
The next to break into the mainstream was a style being refered to as Modernism. Writers like Sigmund Freud and Luigi Pirandello wrote about real life in a grand way. Norton's Anthology describes Modernism as, "A tradition of the new or an attempt to reject old habits of thought while expressing contemporary history in all its chaos, anxiety, technological development, and rapid change." (1337) Freud's analysis of a teenager called "Dora" gave insight into the real thoughts and actions behind an "ill" child. His work has been described as, "a literary masterwork, a short novel told in the first person in which the narrative point of view is as fascinating as the plot and characters." He basically put his psychological work onto paper by writing this piece of literature which was an account of "Dora", her treatment and Freud's conclusions as to her state of being. Luigi Pirandello was a playwright who put a realistic spin into his play, "Six Characters in Search of an Author" by using what could be received as real people and real occurrences in the storyline. The play glorifies reality into something very hard to disguise but at...
