Today, modern society is experience more and more of a...

Today, modern society is experience more and more of a disconnect from the real world as we connect more and more to the online world. People send text messages more than they call, and friends across the world can interact in a matter of seconds, if not instantly. As society continues to modernize, we experience the same sort of falling out with the natural order of things that authors near the turn of the century felt as their culture changed. T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and D.H. Lawrence are only three such authors to put pen to paper to explore this deracination. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and Lawrence’s â€Å"The Rocking Horse Winner† explore the idea that modern life and society negatively affects those who succumb†¦show more content†¦Though the garbage is not in the river itself, it still surrounds the speaker to the extent that it is in the speaker’s consciousness. In addition, in the ambiguous scene between the typist and the clerk, the typist is â€Å"[h]ardly aware of her departed lover† and is only â€Å"‘glad it’s over’† (13), suggesting that the typist has removed herself from the link between physical relations and affection, which is most likely a result of modernization. In Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Marlow views the people of Africa as being other, due to the separation that imperialism and industrialization has created between Europe and Africa. For example, he sees the Africans as â€Å"unhappy savages† (16), because they have not had the advantages that industrialization has brought Europe. As Marlow travels down the river to where Kurtz is stationed, he remarks, â€Å"Well, you know that was the worst of—this suspicion of their not being inhuman† (36). This revelation unnerves Marlow, as he finds it difficult to come to terms with â€Å"the thought of [his] remote kinship† with people he deems savages. 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