The Artistic Leader Of Modernist Novel Creation

Throughout the history of the English novel, one can see distinctive characters the ancient writers created can be described as numerous, including endless impressive figures.As one of the representative modernist writer, Virginia Woolf created many refreshing characters. In her experiments of stream of consciousness novel, she successfully created a number of characters with distinct characteristics of modern, added a splendid touch in British fiction characters gallery. In a time when the development of traditional art of the novel in a bottleneck, she managed to find a breakthrough in the development of innovative modern fiction, practiced the modernist concept of character that vigorously advocated by herself firstly,and achieved a historic breakthrough in the Characterization of English Fiction.Practice of Woolf s novels is a vivid manifestation of her artistic concept. On the basis of the present situation of the British Fiction development at that time,she put forward a very novel theory that centred in "subjective reality" and "individual centers". Woolf believes that modern novelists should put people at the center of novels, focus on the performance of subjective reality of inner character, dig people's consciousness that hidden under the appearance of objective, show complexity of character as far as possible. In her views, only to get rid of the subordination of objective things and portray the true feelings of the characters, can the novel become a true work of art."Subjective reality" and "individual centers" became the theoretical basis of Woolf's experiments of consciousness novels. In the "stream-of-consciousness trilogy", she set up a system of characters based on her "individual centers", created all sorts of female image,and through these images she expressed her thinks on women's issues. These diverse images of women, suffered varying life experiences, had different fates, and together constituted the most important and colorful parts of Woolf's artistic image system. In the process of shaping the characters, Woolf brokeout the shackles of traditional forms of fiction, and actively explore new forms of showing people's subjective reality, and achieved a historic breakthrough. She described the characters not only the promoters and narrators of the story in the text, but also originality allow them to play multiple art function, so that she made her works had an unexpected aesthetic effect.In order to make the characters play a better role of artistic bond in the novel, Woolf abandoned the traditional method that set the relationship on the basis of plots, she no longer payed close attention on objective relationships or logical relationships between the characters. She constructed a very modern and new relationship between the characters from the three angles of physical time, space and the spirit, skillfully stripped the characters off from the plots.By creating links between people on the spiritual level, Woolf focused on showing people's inner subjective reality,and riched the symbolic meaning of characters.Woolf s stream-of-consciousness novels concerned on the spiritual world of characters, payed attention to people's subjective feelings, captured people's impression of the moment,portrayed the flow of characters' consciousness. The art of limning characters, not only demonstrated her experimental spirit, completely matched the view of "to look inside" that she advocated, but also led the development of art of the modern novel in the United Kingdom and western countries. In this sense,we can make sure that Virginia Woolf is the pioneer in the art of the modernist novels.