- Looking at the pictures in the textbook concerning especially the Romantic pictures, then comparing them with the pictures from the realistic period, I realized that there was a large difference. The main difference is nature. In paintings from the romanticism era, there are a lot of depictions of nature, while in the realistic paintings, there is a lack of nature. As the transition between the romantic era and the realistic era occurred, people no longer romanticize about the world,
- The realist ea is one where the world seems to turn its views into very realistic ones (as realistic as possible). The adjectives that are suitable to describe the works, both literary and visual, during this period include adjectives such as gruesome, cruel, suffering, and many more. The scenes that are usually scenes that depict war, poverty and the poor, hunger, and mostly commonly, death. It shows the world just how cruel the world is, and what the lives of the poor are like while the rich live off the poor and continue to use the poor to their advantages.
- I believe that the transition into realism has to do with the people reacting to the increasing hardships in life as industrialism occurs. Nature faded. People were squeezed into small spaces called their homes. People had to work all day long without sufficient rest. People had bad sanitation. People got sick. People died. And people got tired - resulting in the realistic depictions of life as people tried to call out to people for change.
2012年4月9日 星期一
Entry 59: A Change of Heart
Think about what you learned about the previous periods of American literature we’ve studied, and particularly the Romantic period. What were the defining characteristics? Now take a look at the pictures on pages 449-456. Based on those images, what changes in the American mentality can you predict will be evident in the period covered in "The Rise of Realism"? Explain why the pictures lead you to think that way.
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