CH 3: REALISM

Question 1

Realism

Question 2

Romanticism

Answer 2

plot-focused/ mostly very positive / emotionally intense/imaginative / not very realistic / a greater divide grew between the rich and the poor and for the first time there was a larger, literate working-class population and there was a need for literature that reflected their real lives /

Question 3

Realism characteristics

Answer 3

characters who reflected their region, class, gender, and age / an accurate representation of the middle class here and now / defined by the author’s use of characterization and how each character thought, reacted and lived / topics of class and money

Question 4

Naturalism in Literature

Answer 4

humans are analyzed like any other beast/survival of the fittest / class and heredity were inescapable barriers to our success/authors want to expose the world as it really is / naturalists emphasized capturing the world as a documentarian, using objectivity over subjectivity/lack of authorial commentary / - noticeable lack of free will
- lack of happy endings - more often than not, these stories have dark endings and end in death

Question 5

Naturalism & Realism

Answer 5

both strive to depict the world in an honest, straightforward fashion during a period covering roughly the 1880s through to world war 2 -