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Social Realism

The beginnings of Social Realism

Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange’s photography is well-known social realist art. Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. 

Dorothea Lange She captured the truth behind the lives of migrant farm workers. On Arizona Highway 87. Grandmother and sick baby of migrant family in a trailer in an open field. They came to Amarillo, Texas, to pick cotton in Arizona. 

Art History instructor Kathleen Grisham says of Social Realism, “[The movement] focused on the ugly realities of contemporary life and sympathized with working-class people, particularly the poor. [The artists] recorded what they saw (‘as it existed’) in a dispassionate manner.”

How do you see Social Realism depicted in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath?

“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.”

Naturalism

Naturalism and Realism  Both focus on the genuine ways of humanity, stripping away layers of Romanticism to present a “true” or “natural” view of human nature.

Realism vs. Naturalism REALISM Attempts to be a faithful depiction of life. Main focus is on the middle class and its problems. NATURALISM Focuses more on the negative aspects of Realism – a “chronicle of despair.” Focuses mainly on the lower class and the problems and taboos associated with it (ex: violence).

In Donald Pizer’s Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth- Century American Fiction, Pizer says, “The naturalist populates his novel primarily from the lower middle class or the lower class… His fictional world is that of the commonplace and unheroic in which life would seem to be chiefly the dull round of daily existence, as we ourselves usually conceive of our lives. But the naturalist discovers in this world those qualities of man usually associated with the heroic or adventurous, such as acts of violence and passion which involve sexual adventure or bodily strength and which culminate in desperate moments and violent death.”

Do you think that Grapes of Wrath can be classified as a Naturalist novel? Why/why not?