Reading Notes Week 10 part A

Reading Notes

Week10

Part A

• As the world made advancements in transportations made communicating from anywhere easy and impacted the literature in a huge way. 
• With more transportation made it easy for writers to get inspiration from all over the world and allowed them to spread their message further. 
• Also it helped writers spread their new discoveries in writing in general. 
• Realism was on of the most influential movements in the nineteenth century which began in Britain and France and didn't immediately cause impact in European influences. 
• An interesting fact was on pg. 626 where they show a realistic masterpiece named "The Stonebreakers" in 1848 and it was destroyed in the Allied bombing in World War 2. 
• This was so interesting because this shows men hard at work which is a realistic everyday site that was depicted in the painted but since it was destroyed it only exist in reproductions and photos. No more originals all because of the war another realistic aspect of life in the time of the war. 
• Realistic writers introduced new techniques to the literary world that drastically changed history of theater in the late nineteenth century. Realistic writers wrote novels and short stories with realistic drama. 
• The novel was new for literature and opened up flexibility for writers to explore different styles of writing. 
• In the introduction of Fyodor Dostoyevsky where they talk about his background it was interesting in how he was fascinated by thought of why do humans have the basic desire of subduing those weaker than oneself.
• Interesting enough his father was a drunk after the death of his mother that spiraled his behavior. He described his father becoming violent and beating his servants and even talking to his dead wife. 
• I also think it was interesting that before he wrote his novel "Poor Folk" that he actually became poor by blowing all of his money then actually writing the novel and not basing it on opinion or others experiences.