Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a great example of a modernist novel because of its overall “darkness” depicted throughout the novel. The language used to describe the setting and important scenes is very dense and unclear. The novel is chock-full of words like: inconceivable, inscrutable, dark, etc. Rather than defining the characters in black and white terms, such as good and evil, the entire novel is in varying shades of grey. The unfolding of events takes the reader through many events that can be read as unclear and the action in the book and not just the language echoes gray tones. In modernist literature, just as in painting, there is experimentation with form: narrative style, tone, plot. For example, instead of having Kurtz tell his story, or Marlow reciting the story of his journey, the true narrator in Heart of Darkness is an unknown passenger on the Nellie. The quality of the truth of the story becomes very important when the characters are not well defined. This creates awareness for the reader to be wary and question the reality that is...