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Realism, Regionalism, & Naturalism Junior English

Realism/Regionalism ❏Realism is displayed through literary devices in which the author represents human life & experience in literature. ❏Authors sought to portray real life as faithfully & accurately as possible. ❏Realists focused on ordinary people faced with the harsh realities of everyday life.

Realism/Regionalism ❏Realists wrote about things as they saw them. ❏They did not sugar-coat things like the Romantic authors. ❏Hence the root word real.

Themes of Realism ❏Customs: ❏Traditions, habits, culture, rituals ❏Attitudes: ❏Beliefs, family, morals, peers, surroundings ❏Characters (people) ❏Situations ❏Dialects: ❏Accents, slang, jargon, word choice

Naturalism ❏ Focused on truthfully portraying the lives of ordinary people. ❏ Naturalists believed that a person’s fate is determined environment, heredity, and chance. ❏ Naturalists often depicted characters whose lives were shaped by forces they could neither understand nor control. These characters endured with strength & dignity, affirming the strength of their existence. ❏ Five elements of Naturalism.

Five Elements of Naturalism 1. Tension #1: tension between the subject matter & the concept of man that emerges from this subject matter. 2. Tension #2: Characters are described as though they are conditioned & controlled by environment, heredity, instinct, or chance.

Five Elements of Naturalism 3. Characters: Frequently, but not always, ill-educated or lower class whose lives are governed by the forces of heredity, instinct, and passion. 4. Characters: Forces beyond their control usually interrupt attempts at free will. 5. Setting: Usually an urban setting (e. g. New York)