Romanticism and Realism are two drastically different literary forms. Romanticism focuses on the ideal and the natural. It creates what is known as the Romantic hero and makes the hero larger than life. These heroes are like role models of the society. There are real life romantic heroes as well as fictional ones. In the romantic literary and artistic style, one important character is chosen and glorified. Also, in romantic writing emotions and originality are valued and expressed. Aside from the Dark Romanticism, Romantic literature is very bright and creative.
After the Civil War, the Americans were pulled back to reality, and so the name of the new literary style: Realism. It focuses on the hardship of the average American. He subjects of realist literatures are the poor Americans workers living in the cities. It is a much darker style. The attitudes of realist writers are more negative than those of the Romantics. They no longer want to look the ideal and unrealistic. They seek to be more down to earth and often times, pessimistic. Writers also tried to use everyday language when writing their work. This makes their work even closer to the people of the time.
(**Disclaimer: Because of the similarity between this topic and the previous ones, I may have some repetition in my blog posts)
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