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Realism is a literary movement that emerged in the late 19th century in France, focusing on depicting life and relationships as they truly are, particularly the lives of ordinary people. Key authors include Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Henry James, who explored themes such as class conflict and morality through their works. The style of realism emphasizes a clear narrative voice, detailed settings, and character development without the author's personal bias.

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Realism is a literary movement that emerged in the late 19th century in France, focusing on depicting life and relationships as they truly are, particularly the lives of ordinary people. Key authors include Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Henry James, who explored themes such as class conflict and morality through their works. The style of realism emphasizes a clear narrative voice, detailed settings, and character development without the author's personal bias.

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Salwa Alshikh

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Literary movements

2. 5.2020

Realism :

It is a movement that originated in the second half of the nineteenth century in France.

Realism means depicting things and relationships, as clearly as they are in the real world. This

period saw many other literary movements that existed side by side, such as naturalism. Despite

the differences that existed between the writers of this period, there was one desire that combined

them, that they depicted life in their writing realistically. In the literature of realism, we find an

increasing question about the meaning of this world and the meaning of human life The focus

was on the bourgeois world . There was an interest in portraying the daily life of simple people

(such as farmers, workers, and craftsmen). And realists took nature as a backdrop for their

literary works. Realism has abandoned the need for the writer's feelings and his own attitude to

be reflected in what he writes. The world must be portrayed without any attempts at

interpretation, and without any bias towards one position or another, whenever possible

Returning. to history was among the methods used by realists. Where events take place in an age

that is identical to the present era, then the writer will be free to express his thoughts, without

being exposed to the present era. Realist writers wrote theater, novel, stories "la Nouvelle" and

poetry. However, the novel and the stories had the largest share of their writings.
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Representative authors and their works

Honoré de Balzac is recognized as the originator French Realism in literature and one of

the greatest novelists of the nineteenth century he wrote “The human comedy” a collection of

novels It simulates French society in all its classes. Another important writer is Charles Dickens

who is known as a master of English realist novel and most enduring novelists of all time his

major works were “Oliver Twist”, “Nicholas Nickleby” and “pickwick Papers” and many other

successful novels. George Eliot her real name is Marry Ann one of the greatest novelists of

English Realism she wrote “Middlemarch” a masterpiece of English realism. Fyodor Dostoevsky

a major author of Russian realist fiction and one of the greatest novelists of all time he wrote

“Crime and Punishment” the greatest novel ever. Henry James the writer of Daisy Miller a novel

about a beautiful woman. Guy de Maupassant a major practitioner of Naturalism and Realism

and a short story writer his masterpiece is “Ball of fat”.

Themes of realism

Class conflict, the city, philosophy and morality, marriage and family.

Style of realism

narrative voice, setting and characterization.

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