Because, sometimes symbols make things easier to understand.
The first extensive use of gas in warfare was during World War I, when both sides made extensive use of gas, killing or injuring an estimated 1.3 million soldiers and civilians. Prior to World War I and back into antiquity, there were much smaller attempts to use chemical and biological agents as weapons of war. Consider using a catapult to fling pots of dung over the walls of a castle. The resulting stink could be considered an early form of gas warfare, and the potential infection could be considered biological warfare.
Stream of Consciousness
African American writers and artists created books, plays, poems, and paintings.This period was known as the Harlem Renaissance.
The Sumerians performed a trade with foreign countries and other people out of the Persian Gulf. Extensive use of the wheel, which they attached to carts and horse drawn wagons.
In many cases, modernist writers made heavy use of symbolism.
to use new forms of plot
By exaggerating the truth (apex)
the use of stream of consciousness narration
By exaggerating the truth (apex)
"Extensive" is an adjective. Example use: "Despite extensive discussions, the cause of Arab-Israeli peace has made no recent progress."
Modernism covers a large number of writers, and a large geographical area (most of the innovative writers from both Europe and the US who established themselves later than about 1890 will come under the heading 'Modernist' for at least some of their output); there isn't really any single 'fundamental' value of modernism, it is more a general way of approaching writing. That said: 1) almost all 'modernist' writers prefer to use natural language over literary forms (traditionalist writers as late as 1900 were still using 'thee', 'goeth', 'where'er', 'alas' in poetry - modernists try to write the way people actually talk: 'you', 'goes', 'wherever') 2) similarly, a modernist usually writes about the world he knows, not some old-fashioned fantasy world (traditionalist Alfred Dumas wrote about musketeers who rode around on steeds and fought with swords; modernist Emile Zola wrote about women who were married to rich factory-owners, and committed adultery) 3) as modernism takes hold (mainly after World War I) you increasingly see modernist authors having strong political or social ideas. Traditional authors like Dumas or Balzac were mainly interested in producing books which would sell well, and that the audience would enjoy reading. Modernist writers were more likely to want to write books that 'made people think'. Many early modernist writers were sympathetic to Fascism (Yeats, Pound, Marinetti), later there were more Socialist modernists (Brecht, Dos Passos). There was no special political orientation that made you a modernist, but modernists were much more likely to have political messages in their work than more traditional writers.
They use dialect to make a link to that particular audience. For example, "Dem want more" or "I ain't". These quotes link to a Caribbean audience. This is done to connect them to the poem or story.
Modernist writers of fiction tended to prefer complex and psychological characterization, focusing on the interior lives and thoughts of their characters rather than providing a straightforward description of their characteristics or actions. This style of characterization often blurred the line between the character and the narrator, creating a sense of subjectivity and fragmentation in the narrative.
Modernist writers experimented with stream of consciousness, fragmentation, and unreliable narrators to engage readers in new ways and challenge traditional literary conventions. By embracing ambiguity and complex narrative structures, they invited readers to actively participate in constructing meaning and interpreting their works.
Modernist writers used fragmentation in many ways. An example of how it was used would be James Joyce, who used a very fragmented poem to portray the decay and fragmentation of western culture. Through the poem lacking a central, unifying theme, the writer exhibited what they felt was happening to the culture of the time.
Internal monologue in modernist writing is characterized by the stream-of-consciousness technique, where a character's thoughts, feelings, and perceptions flow freely and often without traditional narrative structure. This technique aims to capture the fragmented and nonlinear nature of human consciousness, offering insights into the character's psychology and inner workings. Modernist writers use internal monologue to explore themes of subjectivity, alienation, and the complexities of human experience.