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Compare the two clips. Chronicles of Narnia https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=XacLk1XUZCo Saving Private Ryan https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyNPzxrhi-w. Realism. Age of transition 1855-1870. “A house divided against itself cannot stand”. Unity was being lost North Largely industrial - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Compare the two clips
• Chronicles of Narniahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XacLk1XUZCo
• Saving Private Ryanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyNPzxrhi-w
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Realism
Age of transition1855-1870
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“A house divided against itself cannot stand”
Unity was being lost• North– Largely industrial– Manufacturing and financial services
• South– Agricultural
• Cotton • Tobacco• Sugar cane
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• Expansion West raised questions– Which areas would have slaves?
• John Brown– Bleeding Kansas
• Killed 5 proslavery men as revenge for sacking Lawrence– Harpers Ferry
• Federal arsenal• Bloody raid• Hoped to spark uprising
– Thoreau• “An angel of light”
– Hawthorne• “no man was ever more justly hanged”
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People were even caning each other in Senate!– Charles Sumner berated colleagues who
supported slavery– Preston S. Brooks beat him unconscious with his
cane
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Dred Scott
1857• Scott was a slave who spent several years in a
free state with his master– He argued this made him free– Court ruled against him• Also said free blacks “had no rights which a white man
was bound to respect”
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A call to glory• Up until this point in history, literature is filled with
the Romantic hero– Thus, the armies was filled with men who felt the war
to be a call to glory• Battle of Bull Run– Thousands dead and wounded– Reality struck
• Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Vicksburg
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Change in mindset
• Yes, a horrible war, but united the country– “United States are…..” “United States is….”
• Romanticism was left behind– Writing became honest, unsentimental, and ironic
Birth of REALISM
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Realism
• Depicting reality– No matter how ordinary the characters or their
circumstances• Basing observations of commonplace events
and peopleShed light on greater social issues and concerns
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Realist Themes
• Concerned with:– Class conflicts – Urbanization – Marriage – Family life
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Whitman and Dickinson“I look in vain for the poet whom I describe. We do not with sufficient plainness, or sufficient profoundness, address ourselves to life…”• Emerson looking for a poet with a truly fresh
voice
Walt Whitman and Emil Dickinson filled the request
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Rule breakers• Wrote poetry so radical in form and content
– Took too long for people to appreciate
Leaves of Grass• Whitman saw America as a great poem, the greatest in the
world, and his job was to capture it on paper– Free verse
• no rhyme or meter– Huge expansive poems
Dickinson’s poems terse and compressed• Extremely personal• Love, death, immortality, nature
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Transitional
• Whitman– Could be romantic• Individualism, nature, emotion
– However, many topics were considered vulgar
• Dickinson– Ordinary household items– Unemotional tone
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Slave narrativesTold the truth behind slavery
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)– Was taught how to read by master until she was caught
• Continued to teach himself– Escaped in 1838– Famous orator and author– Advised Lincoln and helped recruit African-American soldiers for
Union– Several gov’t posts– Inverted parallelism
• Reversal of ideas expressed in parallel phrases/clauses• “The longest days were too short for him, and the shortest nights too long
for him”
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Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897)
– One of the few females to write her point of view
– 1st owner was good to her, but the second (Dr. Flint) made sexual advances towards her
– Began relationship with his neighbor (Mr. Sands)• Had two kids with him
– Dr. Flint sent her to Mr. Flint• Ran away without her children• Hid in a tiny attic space for seven years
– Dr. Sands bought her children
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Lincoln vs Crane
Through Gettysburg Address and other speeches, Lincoln expresses the highest ideals of the era
Authors like Stephen Crane and Ambrose Pierce show harsher light– Human tragedy of a war that destroyed hundreds
of thousands of American lives
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Realism in a nutshell
• A faithful representation of reality in literature– Also known as “verisimilitude.”
• Emphasis on development of believable characters.
• Written in natural vernacular, or dialect.
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Legacy of Realism and the Age of Transition
• Crane Depicting war in it’s grim reality– Daily discomforts, horrors of battlefield, lasting/unexpected
consequences– Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down
• Whitman and Dickinson Artistic innovators– Pushing the limits– Broadening tastes and imaginations– Beatles, Blue Man Group, Cirque de Solei
• Civil War African American leadership– Politics, education, sciences– Obama, Maya Angelou, Rosa Parks, MLK Jr, Oprah Winfrey