1. Differences and Similarities Between Realism and Naturalism in American Literature崔璨

2. Outline General Knowledge Differences & Similarities
Reflection on Novels
Relation

3. Realism in American Literature
American Realism was a literary movement happened between 1860s and 1910s.
It stresses truthful treatment of material and commonness of the lives of the common people.
Mark Twain ,William Dean Howells
Henry James

4. Naturalism in American Literature
Naturalism dominated American literature from 1890s to 1920s.
The Naturalism tends to describe the reality and depict the dark side of the society.
Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris

5. Differences & Similarities
Background
Booming of economy
Science & technology
War
Civil War
WWI
Zola
Darwin
Chase of wealth and fame
Business conquering the world N R

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Writing features
Character
R: middle class, facing moral or ethical choices,a ordinary person, one key character
N: low class,under the will of forces, a helpless object, more the one key character

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Writing features
Plot
R:in real world, facts, daily routines
N:realistic picture of events,
hopeless situation, miserable

8. Differences & Similarities
Writing features
Style
R:describing things as they exist in reality, dialects
N:convey a character, setting or thing so that the mood or atmosphere appears irreversibly doomed, dialects

9. Differences & Similarities
Theme
R:reveal the real world precisely, ordinary struggles of the common man
N:struggles in real world, the indifference and determinism of the universe; cruelty of the natural world

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Silas Lapham:
a middle class man, has his own business
from poor to rich
faced with the moral choice
follows his conscience,
business fails
rises to a higher moral level
Sister Carrie:
a country girl, has nothing but the beauty(heredity)
struggles for better life and success at any cost(survival of the fittest)
gets material success but lost her family and innocence

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Realism
Naturalism

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