CSTU 101- Quiz 8-Chp 23
questions and answers 2025-
2026
mid-19th century people focused on - answer what is real; call the
movement "realism"
-they looked out at the world (looked at society)
-wanted to change the world
-NOT like the romantics who were obsessed with themselves.
Literature in Mid-19th century - answer period of Charles Dickens
-one of the things you would see in 19th century is just how bad things
were-negative consequences from industrial revolution
-Dickens author of "Oliver Twist"-portrayed what it was like to be an
orphan on the streets of a modern city (was not right; need to do
something about it)
Literature continued: - answer Gustave Flaubert, as another realist writer.
-novel "Madame Bovary-given us insight into what life was like in the small
towns and villages of France.
because of these bad conditions from the industrial revolution it gave rise
to: - answer *modern journalism*; their job is to determine what the
problems in the real world are and how can they be addressed.
-*photography* also introduced as new tech.-allows you to take a picture
of the world as it actually is and relate it more accurately than any painter
could ever achieve.
most famous building of the 19th century - answer The Crystal Palace
(built in London in 1851)
~Its purpose was to house what was known as the Great Exhibition.
(showcasing the leading tech. and commercial products of the day)
, -a celebration of the achievements of man and the notion of progress
-America was going through phase of romanticism in 19th century and the
realist movement doesn't take place till 20th ce
symbolism of the Crystal Palace - answer -glass and the steel represents
expressing the confidence of the modern age in strength of scientific
progress.
~steel structure-symbolizing the framework that science provides to the
modern secular mind.
~the clear glass=the idea being that with reason, you're looking right
through to the truth of things and seeing the world as it actually is.
Painting by Gustave Courbet's "A Burial at Ornans." - answer Courbet is
capturing a typical scene of village life, a funeral in a village.
Courbet is saying-Death takes everybody equally; there is no respect to
your persons. (priest, village dog, merchant is all equal)
French painter, Jean-Francois Millet's "Gleaners," painted in 1857. - answer
Millet is painting an ordinary country scene here of workers in the field,
gleaning and harvesting.
~don't actually see workers faces; document life as it is actually lived by
real people.
~portray these field workers having value in themselves.
Karl Marx - answer very influential book that he wrote in 1848, Communist
Manifesto.
~He was focusing on the problems within society and prescribing changes
that he thought had to be made. (was a materialist)
*Materialism* according to Karl Marx
-looked at society, politics, and economics - answer Materialism is the
belief that man is the product of the material world, of material things.
-man is the product of the material environment around him
-man can be reduced to what he has and doesn't have ("Well, there's crime
because some people don't have things and other people do.")
questions and answers 2025-
2026
mid-19th century people focused on - answer what is real; call the
movement "realism"
-they looked out at the world (looked at society)
-wanted to change the world
-NOT like the romantics who were obsessed with themselves.
Literature in Mid-19th century - answer period of Charles Dickens
-one of the things you would see in 19th century is just how bad things
were-negative consequences from industrial revolution
-Dickens author of "Oliver Twist"-portrayed what it was like to be an
orphan on the streets of a modern city (was not right; need to do
something about it)
Literature continued: - answer Gustave Flaubert, as another realist writer.
-novel "Madame Bovary-given us insight into what life was like in the small
towns and villages of France.
because of these bad conditions from the industrial revolution it gave rise
to: - answer *modern journalism*; their job is to determine what the
problems in the real world are and how can they be addressed.
-*photography* also introduced as new tech.-allows you to take a picture
of the world as it actually is and relate it more accurately than any painter
could ever achieve.
most famous building of the 19th century - answer The Crystal Palace
(built in London in 1851)
~Its purpose was to house what was known as the Great Exhibition.
(showcasing the leading tech. and commercial products of the day)
, -a celebration of the achievements of man and the notion of progress
-America was going through phase of romanticism in 19th century and the
realist movement doesn't take place till 20th ce
symbolism of the Crystal Palace - answer -glass and the steel represents
expressing the confidence of the modern age in strength of scientific
progress.
~steel structure-symbolizing the framework that science provides to the
modern secular mind.
~the clear glass=the idea being that with reason, you're looking right
through to the truth of things and seeing the world as it actually is.
Painting by Gustave Courbet's "A Burial at Ornans." - answer Courbet is
capturing a typical scene of village life, a funeral in a village.
Courbet is saying-Death takes everybody equally; there is no respect to
your persons. (priest, village dog, merchant is all equal)
French painter, Jean-Francois Millet's "Gleaners," painted in 1857. - answer
Millet is painting an ordinary country scene here of workers in the field,
gleaning and harvesting.
~don't actually see workers faces; document life as it is actually lived by
real people.
~portray these field workers having value in themselves.
Karl Marx - answer very influential book that he wrote in 1848, Communist
Manifesto.
~He was focusing on the problems within society and prescribing changes
that he thought had to be made. (was a materialist)
*Materialism* according to Karl Marx
-looked at society, politics, and economics - answer Materialism is the
belief that man is the product of the material world, of material things.
-man is the product of the material environment around him
-man can be reduced to what he has and doesn't have ("Well, there's crime
because some people don't have things and other people do.")
