The Literary Realist Movement: A Response To Realism

Frances Hsu, Kiki Hsieh

Ms. Botha

11-M4 Literaure

Oct 22, 2015

Realism Movement

1 After civil war, a new literary movement, realism, came into American literature, ranging from 1865-1910. Large amount of people moved into the city, and people suffering a lot more because the exploitation of companies. As a reaction to Romanticism, which emphasizes a lot more ideal, emotional, and fantastical, it uses facts to represent middle class and social circumstances.(The Literary Realism Movement: A Response to Romanticism) Realism is about reflecting everyday life, focusing on the problem in the society, which really lived, and expressing the concern for the people in the commonplace. Major realistic writers, such as, William Dean Howells, Henry

There are three important pioneers who were in the field of Realism; First, Samuel Clemens (1835-1910). He was best known from his pen name Mark Twain who grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. Also, he presented as regional Realists who experienced and wrote about the facts in regional America. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are both more famous book and his character was writing about the real aspects of human nature. In addition, the stories were realistic because this is what children are like and telling the real thing. For example, in The Adventures of Huckleberry, the child Huck Finn was the poor little boy. Although Huck considered he was not obeying the rules and to curse to the hell, he decided to follow his conscience to help the Back slaves to get the freedom.Moreover,Tom Sawyer possesses human qualities we can

First of all, writers at that age always gave a detailed description of middle class people in the reality. After Civil War, writers expressed an exhaustion or moral from people, focusing on the scene of people in humble life, criticizing bad social condition in America. Moreover, they describe figures impartially and objectively. Not only to convince readers or to be close to the reality that workers did suffer from bad treatment from the companies, but also want to remove lies from politics and business, writers must stood on both points of view. As they stood on workers’ point of view, they might describe how hard their life was, on the other hand, when they stood on companies’ point of view, they might depicting cold-blooded they were because they only thought about profits. In addition, realist writers always imply strong rejection from Romanism; they opposed any works that were too emotional and ideal because it didn’t help the society.(Thakar) From writing soldiers in the war, Realism’s writers may write about how harsh those soldiers were, however, Romanism’s writers may overstate every solier as heroes who killed hundreds and thousands of enemy. That is, main fundamental tenets for Realism have very detailed description which is close to reality, focusing on people who didn 't have good livng standard objectively, and strongly oppose the writing style of Romanism.(Realism and the Realist