realism, naturalism

Question 1

realis is a reaction against Romanticism after the horrors of ________

Answer 1

the civil war

Question 2

what are the characteristics of realism

Answer 2

avoidance of the supernatural, faithful portrayal of realistic details, and verisimilitude more important than action and plot (cold facts)

Question 3

writing things down just as they are

Answer 3

Verisimilitude

Question 4

problems of realistic novels

Answer 4

Boring
No arc
Depressing (death)

Question 5

Henry James

Answer 5

-Psychological realist
Personality described
Focuses on moving up or down in society
The primary subject of matter is the social maneuvering of the upper class
Wrote nearly 100 novels

Question 6

The Portrait of a Lady, The American, The Europeans, Daisy Miller

Answer 6

Henry James

Question 7

Kate Chopin

Answer 7

Early Feminist writer
Ahead of her time
Feminist voice
End of the 1800s but sounds like the 1960s

Question 8

A woman marries guy and the girl has a heart problem. Guy goes on business trip. On train back the train has an accident and husband dies. People have to figure out how to tell lady her husband dies. As she reflects she feels liberated/joy. SHe comes back downstairs and her husband comes in and she dies of heart attack

Answer 8

“Story of an Hour”

Question 9

“Story of an Hour”
“Desiree’s Baby”
The Awakening

Answer 9

Kate Chopin

Question 10

Edwin Arlingron Robinson

Answer 10

American Dream gone awry”
Satirized Romantics
Won 3 Pulitzer Prizes for poetry

Question 11

“Miniver Cheevy” satirizes Romantic ideal
A guy with his head in the clouds but isnt good

Answer 11

Edwin Arlingron Robinson

Question 12

Charles Darwin

Answer 12

British scientist who published Origin of Species
Theory of evolutions “survival of fittest”
Death to romance idea of nature
Strongest win (romantics think nature inspires beauty)
Realist think nature as danger
Inspired Naturalism

Question 13

origin of Species

Answer 13

Charles Darwin

Question 14

Attempts to apply scientific principles to study of human beings
Realism + Darwin

Answer 14

Naturalism

Question 15

who was naturalism inpired by

Answer 15

Darwin “Humans are motivated by animal tendencies”

Question 16

what are naturalism’s characters motivated by

Answer 16

Sextual desire, greed psychology
Have and have nots
Life ugly and brutal

Question 17

Stephe Crane

Answer 17

Realism, Naturalism
died at 28 of tuberculosis

Question 18

Red Badge of Courage (War survival of fittest)
Maggie:A girl of the streets- portrayed of life in city slums

Answer 18

Stephe Crane

Question 19

Jack London

Answer 19

Naturalism: Man against Nature
Varied life experiences: Japan, Alaska

Question 20

Wrote The call of the Wild (1903), Sea - Wolf (1904), White fang (1906) , “To Build a fire”
Man against nature
Nature wins

Answer 20

Jack London

Question 21

Theodore Drieser

Answer 21

Naturalist novelist
Style is raw, unliterary, unpolished with no judgment but meral description of facts
Wrote about cities and pollution and ugly

Question 22

Wrote Sister Carrie, The Financier, The Titan, An American Tragedy

Answer 22

Theodore Drieser

Question 23

naturalism characteristics

Answer 23

Traject waste of human potential due to vile circumstances
Order or lack of order
Individual struggle to understand forces affecting ones life
WWI and WWII
Embrace the force of nature that toyed with the individual