Realism

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Realism

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Realism

• Reaction against Romanticism.
• Emerges in the U.S. during the late 1800s.
• Still prominent today.

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Romanticism vs. Realism

• Limited by the authors imagination.
• Find meaning in fanciful or unlikely characters
  and situations.
• Glosses over or idealizes certain kinds of
  characters.

• Limited by real-world possibilities.
• Find meaning in everyday situations.
• Deals honestly with all kinds of characters.

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Influences

• Realities of Civil War
• Industrialization and Urbanization
• Expanding population from immigration
• Science and technology

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Purpose of Literature

• Questions the purpose of life
• Focuses on ordinary, typical, average
• Heavily detailedstark imagerynot idealized
• Observes, records, analyzes LIFE
• No more happy endings

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Naturalism

• Extension of Realism.
• Tries to deal with fictional situations
  objectively, like a scientist.
• Heredity Environment Chance Fate
• Humans are controlled by heredity or environment
  therefore, humans have few choices

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Regionalism

• Local dialects and customs present in writing.
• Descriptions of landscape.
• Conveyed essence of various regions around the
  United States.
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ideas for thesis and POA

• ironysituational and dramatic
• masks
• character analysisMrs. Mallard or the speaker of
  We Wear the Mask
• themecreate a theme (oppression)
• imagery