Realism And Naturalism

Question 1

Context of the period of realism

Answer 1

-problems between the bourgeoisie
-scientific discoveries

Question 2

Realism characteristics

Answer 2

-imitates reality and observe it
-no feelings
-impersonal
-main features, local environment,
-every day life is important
-social and political problems

Question 3

Goal of realism

Answer 3

To find knowledge

Question 4

Representative authors of realism

Answer 4

-Honoré de Balzac
-Gustave Flaubert
-Charles Dickens
-Stendhal
-Chekhov

Question 5

Naturalism, origin and main author

Answer 5

-Started in France
-Emile Zola
-Main representatives were Guy de Maupassant, Henry ceard
-Inspired by stride like experimental medicine and natural inheritance

Question 6

Charactereristics of realism

Answer 6

-life’s conceived as deterministic
-Pessimism
-objetive and based on observation
-very detailed descriptions
-scientific lexicon

Question 7

Important works

Answer 7

R- Marianela de Benito Pérez galdos
R - The red and the black de Stendhal (romance between church)
N - Nana p, Emile Zola (woman ruining men)