Futurist Manifesto By Marinetti: Literary Analysis

The Futurist Manifesto tells the story of the founding of Futurism. Marinetti writes the finding as a real life event. One night Marinetti and his friends are sitting together discussing various topics, but overall not being satisfied with life. They feel consumed by life, distracted by cars on the street zooming by. Suddenly they get a jolt of energy to take on the night. Marinetti wants them to forget the old ways of life and start something new. Step away from what life is currently and try something new. The journey of finding this new element is promenade in the beginning of the story. Throughout the writing Marinetti and his friends are challenged with finding a new concept for life that rejects all that they know. As they drive on the …show more content…
Futurism encompasses the love of danger. Poetry should display courage, risk taking, violence, and rebellious ideas. Literature should show aggression, danger, and violence. They glorify the elements of speed in every aspect. Futurism should be what the world revolves around, everything before this times does not exist. Futurism must uplift the elements of war; militarism, patriotism, anarchists, killing, and disrespect for women. Finally, Futurism should destroy museums and libraries because they promote the past and everything the Futurists are against. Marinetti continues with telling the people of this new movement using Italy as an example. Italy a place rich in history needs the revolution of Futurism to bring it from its condemned ways that focus on the past. The past should not be dwelled upon or its elements. He describes the people of the Futurist movement as young vibrant people, but some day they will all become old and the new movement will come in violently, reflecting the Futurists developed ways. The cycle of new movements then repeats itself. Marinetti ends his rant with mass amounts of adrenalin and telling people to take …show more content…
The way Marinetti went about describing the elements of Futurism were very blunt, but he uses a story to explain why society needed a new movement. He seems to be very bored with life at the beginning, but progresses into excitement and exhilaration. This piece is very successful in promoting Futurism and explaining what it is in a writing format. The way Marinetti describes Futurism it seems very violent and intimidating. In the beginning of the piece you get a since of being stuck and going nowhere. As the story progresses it moves to a very frustrating tone of trying to find this new thing or idea for their dull lives. As he crashes into a ditch it’s like he has arrived in a violent way to his idea of Futurism. The tone is now excited but controlling. His guidelines on Futurism’s elements contain mainly words of power, control, and negativity. This could be a direct relationship with WWI happening during their