Realism

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Bachillerato English Literature Mind Map on Realism , created by Rose Carter on 19/12/2015.
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Realism
  1. Purpose
    1. Socio-economic commentary
      1. Draws attention to the exploitive conditions endured by poor immigrant workers
        1. commentary on the middle-classes
          1. The "Great Gulf" that exists between classes
            1. Divided Time
              1. Class
                1. race
                  1. Gender
                  2. The worker works in hell, but has a soul and is as worthy of redemption as "you" the middle class reader
              2. Appeal to the middle class readers
                1. Higher literacy levels
                2. Amy Kaplan: "A strategy for imagining and managing the threats of social change"
                  1. Reaction against Romanticism
                    1. Hawthorne
                      1. The Social Novel
                  2. Tone
                    1. Matter-of-fact
                      1. Narrator's use of "you"
                        1. "I want you to hide your disgust...come right down with me- here, into the thickest of the fog, mud and foul effluvia"
                      2. Satiric
                        1. Comical
                          1. Natural Vernacular
                          2. Realism?
                            1. Realistic, banal activities
                              1. Verisimiltude
                                1. Period from the Civil War to the turn of the century
                                  1. 1860-1890s
                                  2. Harmon and Holman: "Where romantics transcend the immediate to find the idea;, and the naturalists plumb the actual or superficial to find the scientific laws that control its actions, realists center their attention to a remarkable degree on the immediate, the here and now, the scientific action and the verifiable consequence"
                                  3. Emphasis on
                                    1. weather
                                      1. "A cloudy day"
                                        1. "the air is thick, clammy with the breath of human beings"
                                        2. Setting - descriptive
                                          1. Characters> Plot/Action
                                            1. Sensual
                                            2. Industrialization
                                              1. Heard before it's seen
                                                1. "like thunder from a thousand engines"
                                                2. Hugh: Laborer - Sculpter
                                                  1. Welsh Immigrant
                                                    1. Hugh is a man who believes he can alter his existence; his position is not merely hereditary and transformation can be realised through social integration
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