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Realism - the theory of writing in which the familiar, ordinary aspects of life are depicted in a matter of fact, straightforward manner designed to reflect life as it actually is.
Naturalism - uses detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.
Realism is focused on the world.
It presents the W RLD as it is.
Timeline
1881 "Prince and the Pauper"
1861 Civil War breaks out; serves two weeks with Confederate irregulars
1835 Born in Florida, Missouri
1862 Travels around Nevada and California
1884 "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
1865 "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog"
1910 Dies of heart attack
1851 Begins work as journeyman printer
1883 "Life on the Mississippi"
1857 Becomes cub pilot for Horace Bixby
Style
Greatest Works
Employs witty devices
Dialect and idioms
True-to-life images of America
Satire
Life on the Mississippi
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Humorous and entertaining
Comic exaggeration
Begins with a memoir of the steamboat era and a brief history of the river. The other half is of Twain's adventures and travels
About a young protagonist school boy growing up by the Mississippi River and the challenges he faces as well as his resolutions
Offbeat similes, metaphors, and irony
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Uses more words than necessary to express an idea
A story of a teenage misfit and an escaped slave who are floating down the Mississippi River. Huck and Jim meet with adventure, danger, and hilarious characters
is focused on the aspects that one cannot control.
The Age of Realism in American Literature took place from 1880-1914.
Realism became a dominant style of writing.
Overpopulation caused many problems for the country. Writers began to write about ordinary characters and began to reflect the realities of life.
displays the beauty and the ugliness in the events that have occurred and can occur.
Naturalism used realism to show that environment, social conditions, and other events helped to shape human characters.
allows people to evaluate and understand these events.
Realism reacts against Romanticism’s idealized situations
Realism aims towards social issues and problems
Naturalism presents human behavior objectively
Naturalism was influenced by the theories of psychology and sociology
It illustrates the TRUTHS of the world in DETAILS
Realism displays the BEAUTY and the UGLINESS in the world.
The goal of realism is to allow someone to read an article or piece of writing and CHALLENGE them to think about what the author is stating.