Realism
... 241 Realism “Realism is essentially born of an impatience with Romanticism. The Romantic sees his material through the lenses of his imagination, and thus presents us a world that may be better or worse than the world we all know, but is never the world as it is actually lived” (Realism online). Realism is defined as the belief that it is the person’s choices and actions that affect the outcome of that person, not the environment. ... Such examples of Realism in Literature would be that of Mark Twains The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg.