Romanticism is characterized by the triumph of the individual and honoring history, while realism focuses on documenting the world as it is.
Realism often portrays the negative aspects of industrialization.
Realism in the 1850s emphasized exacting writing and a meticulous approach to crafting sentences.
You don't end up liking everyone by the end of Madame Bovary, but in kind of a funny way? Come for the book talk, stay for the butchered French pronunciation.
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