Postmodernism Gossip Girl

The popular television series, Gossip Girl, reflects an example of Modern Realism which highlights the intrigue behind a secret identity. Gossip Girl welcomes everyone to New York City’s upper east side where we are introduced into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite. Throughout the show there is roller coaster romances and piles of secrets hiding aways for Gossip Girl to find, this show is sure to bring the upper east side and its drama into our lives. This show definitely has its own modern twist by making every episode filled with more drama than the last. There is also plenty of romance throughout this show with all the relationships going on. Modernist thinkers represented a revolution against the nostalgic pandering of Romanticism and the limited scope of Realism. Modernists began to shift their understanding of knowledge by emphasizing ways of knowing rather than objects of knowledge. They wanted to understand and explain how we know what we know. There were definitely mixed reactions to this new “modern” world of industrialized society.
While Modernist writers sought to express themselves and their experience in the world through new and different ways, they focused on documenting traditional and universal themes, suggesting that there is some “shared understanding” in the world. Postmodernists would reject this idea of any universality and claim that everything was subjective. Postmodernists can be summed up as an expression of the individual’s subjective perception of the relativistic world. The idea of “relativism” is particularly important for the Postmodernist wants to show that knowledge and Truth depend on perception. Some will argue that neither really exist. Postmodernists always ask When, Where, and For Whom when determining reality. Gossip Girl is a prime example of this. Throughout the whole show Gossip Girl is finding out When, Where, and For Whom before she puts out her