Read Chapter 30 thoroughly, and answer the following Factual and Challenge questions regarding
realist style, industry, and social theory in the 19th century.
FACTUAL (please answer four (4) of these questions):
- What were some of the main features of advancing industrialism in the West?
- Where did European nations establish colonies during the nineteenth century? What immediate effects did
nineteenth-century colonialism have on Europe and the rest of the world? - In Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden,” who are the people called “Half-devil and half-child”?
- What was the Chinese punishment for importing or smoking opium? (See reading 30.2)
- What were the principal subjects and themes of realist writers? How did they differ from those of the
romantics? - Who were the pioneers in the development of photography/lithography?
CHALLENGE (please answer three (3) of these questions ~ they must include research beyond your textbook): - What aspects of realism ran counter to the perceptions and beliefs of the romantics? How did the realist
credo manifest itself in the paintings of von Menzel, Kollwitz, and Courbet, and the novels of Dickens and
Flaubert? - Offer an assessment of the ideas set forth in the Communist Manifesto; why, in your view, has communism
collapsed in such countries as the former Soviet Union? - Marx argues that the Western bourgeoisie has created “a world after its own image.” Do recent
developments in the former Soviet Union, especially the collapse of the communist regime, seem to support
this observation? - Flaubert is said to have been a master of close observation, concrete detail, and objectivity. Are these
qualities clearly reflected in Reading 30.8? Are they equally apparent in the prose of Dickens (Reading 30.5),
Twain (Reading 30.6), Dostoevsky (Reading 30.7), and Kate Chopin (Reading 30.9)?
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