Realism

Question 1

Purpose of realism

Answer 1

To depict life with familiar or harsh circumstances

Question 2

What was shocking about realism?

Answer 2

sexual indiscretions

brutality

vulgarity

unredeemed injustice

Question 3

What came from realism movement?

Answer 3

Naturalism

Question 4

Why did naturalism and realism develop?

Answer 4

The horrors of the Civil War

Question 5

Naturalism characters

Answer 5

Sturdier through their relationships to their surroundings

Question 6

Naturalism viewpoint

Answer 6

Objective

Trys to be scientific

Question 7

3 Things studied by Naturalism

Answer 7

studied human beings governed by instincts

character’s passions

the way in which the characters lives were governed by forces of heredity and environment

Question 8

Random naturalism characteristics

Answer 8

personification of nature

animal images/references

sensory images: color, sound

Question 9

Themes

Answer 9

survival, determinision, violence

the brute within each individual

man vs. nature

man vs. himself

Question 10

Naturalism setting

Answer 10

Usually urban

Question 11

Is god mentioned in naturalism?

Answer 11

No

Question 12

Overall viewpoint of life in Naturalism

Answer 12

nothing good happens to you

odds are stacked against you

pessimistic

Question 13

Naturalism vs. Realism

Answer 13

naturalism is extremeley pessimistic realism

naturalism focuses more on the lower classes and cause/effect

naturalism intested in history and science

Question 14

Facts about Stephan Crane

Answer 14

attended Lafayette

known for baseball playing and not writing

became a journalist

Question 15

What book made Crane famous?

Answer 15

The Red Badge of Courage

He didnt make money off of it though

Question 16

What inspired Crane to write The Open Boat?

Answer 16

He sank on the Commodore

He did not die though

Question 17

Who wrote The Open Boat?

Answer 17

Stephen Crane

Question 18

Who wrote An Occurence at Owl Creek?

Answer 18

Ambrose Bierce

Question 19

Who wrote Daisy Miller?

Answer 19

Henry James

Question 20

Interesting facts on Ambrose Bierce

Answer 20

He fought in the Civil War

His death is unknown because he moved to Mexico to cover the revolution and disappeared

Question 21

Henry James facts

Answer 21

He traveled between the US and Europe frequently (educated in both)

He settled in London

Question 22

Which book established Henry James as an author to note?

Answer 22

Daisy Miller

Question 23

Realism in an Occurence at Owl Creek

Answer 23

Civil War

Gives gritty details about war

The detailed setting

Question 24

What is Bierce doing in an Occurence at Owl Creek?

Answer 24

He is making fun of romantic writers

calling romantic stories stupid and unrealistic

Question 25

What is ironic about an Occurrence at Owl Creek?

Answer 25

Hanging from a bridge, since he was burning the bridge as his crime

Question 26

Stream of Consciousness

Answer 26

getting characters thoughts and style with a realistic tone it feels like you are in the head of a character fragments of random disconnected thoughts

Question 27

What type of story is The Open Boat?

Answer 27

Naturalism

Question 28

What is ironic about the Oiler's death?

Answer 28

He is the strongest. This is very much an example of naturalism

Question 29

Who is Daisy Miller inspired by?

Answer 29

Henry James's cousin also inspired by an ignorant American mom who let her daughter go with a Roman

Question 30

What does Daisy Miller symbolize?

Answer 30

Daisy Miller=common American name Daisy is a common American tourist

Question 31

What does Winterbourne symbolize?

Answer 31

Winter=cold bourne=only flows in winter He is stiff

Question 32

What do the april daises symbolize?

Answer 32

new daises that will replace Daisy Miller

Question 33

What does Randolph Miller symbolize?

Answer 33

The typical American tourist

Question 34

What do the Polish boys symbolize?

Answer 34

Proper education and upbringing They are a foil to Randolph

Question 35

What does Eugenion symbolize?

Answer 35

The relationship between servants and their masters Represents the American idea of equality

Question 36

What does the Roman fever symbolize?

Answer 36

The ill-effects of the sophisicated Europeans and Americans that chastise the Millers

Question 37

What does the Coliseum symbolize?

Answer 37

Represented Daisy's death sentence like the Christians would have gotten from the upper class Romans

Question 38

Picaresque

Answer 38

It has a low-born adventurer who would rather live by wits than honorable work Adventures among people of all social classes, often barely escaping punishment Irony or Satire: corruptions of society, while also offering the reader a rich mine of observations concerning people in low or humble works of life.

Question 39

Is Daisy Miller a picaresque?

Answer 39

Not fully because she is not low-bourne However, she does represent the corruptions of a too puritanical society