That humans are alienated from true knowledge of themselves is the implicit contention of the stream-of-consciousness form of narration. Stream-of-consciousness attempts to record how scattered and jumbled the experience of the world really is and at the same time how deeper patterns in thought can be discerned by those (such as readers) with some distance from them. In order to illustrate how humans’ minds really work, Modernist writers use a narrative technique known as stream-of-consciousness. Therefore, Modernists emphasized the ways in which people think and how these thoughts can effect characters’ decisions and the world around them. Rather, people should attempt to simply record thoughts, for by this, the reader can understand things about the narrator that the narrator him-or herself does not” (Galens 181). The Modernists claimed that it was “impossible” to depict real life without concentrating on the character’s subconscious, for “the psyche of the narrator will always be affected by unknown forces and thus is never able to capture reality without any kind of bias or alteration. Modernists did not believe that the Realists’ methods of writing simply about the actions of everyday life truly depicted the real world. The Modernist movement was a reaction to Realism.
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