What were apects of Civil War?
Loss of 1 million/9 million people
Bleeding Kansas: Start of violence between North and South
Dred Scott Decision: said slaves were property
John Brown: Led slave revolt at arsinal
Aspects of Gilded Age
Unmistakable:
Age of Monopolies
Appearance vs. Reality
Aspects of social Issues
1) Racism
2) Xenophobia: fear of foriegners
3) gender issues (women issues)
An artistic and literary movement fro 1865 to 1914; it is an attempt to potray life as it really is.
Realism
List the 4 key features of Realism
1) Focus on Ordinary
2) Character development>plot
3) Analitical authorization. Like reporters (less interpretation for readers)
4) Writes about real social issues of the time
Machine and unstoppable force
War
A genre of Realism, specific to a particular region of people
Regionalism
Trying to make written word sound like the realistic language
Dialect
An intensified form of Realism, explores human relationship with environment (deterministic)
Naturalism
Life is determined by external factors
deterministic
Uses humor to criticize human weakness
Satire
The Damn Human Race
author+description
Mark Twain
A satire about how humans think they are the highest animals but in reality they are the lowest. The story runs test to prove it.
Chickamauga
Author+ main idea
Ambrose Bierce
Explores appearance vs. reality about going to war
Story of an Hour
Author+ main idea
Kate Chopin
Women hears her husband is dead. In reality he is alive.
Women has heart cancer and dies when her husband come home
Main idea is marriage and forbidden pleasures of independence at the time of unequal women rights.
Law of Life
author+ main idea
Jack London
Old Eskimo Chief Koskoosh is left with a fire to die
He has to accept his fate
To Build a Fire
author+ main idea
Jack London
A man travels in the Yukon with a husky. The story explores naturalism. The man dies and the dog survives
The Open Boat
author+ main idea
Stephen Crane
The story explores many themes about humans and the Natural World. It is about 3 men who are in a boat trying to get to shore. In the end the hard worker dies (the oiler)
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge
Author+ main idea
Ambrose Bierce
Story about a man who is being hanged, he is being hanged because he tried to burn a Union bridge down. In the story you think he is getting home.
What color is realism?
Gray
What is individual vs society for realism?
Individuals are represented as groups
War is not individualistic
Humans are all in the same boat
What is the American Dream of Realism?
Focus on reality, the present
Civil Warism
Dream is not equitable
What is Nature in Realism?
Unsympathetic
Free will is an allusion
Deterministic on outside forces
What are the Big Ideas of Realism?
Unified Creation does not exist
Skepticism about universal truths(gray)
Realism started because of this event________
Civil War
