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The second half of S. XIX

is important to know the historical and cultural situation of Spain in the second half of the nineteenth century.

historical situation

- The bourgeoisie, formed by large employers and landlords, is the country's ruling class. Installed in power and become conservatives and moderates.

- Progressives, composed of small businessmen, artisans and low-ranking soldiers, face to conservatism and privilege of the rich.

- The proletariat, the class they belong to the workers and peasants, trying to defend their interests, socialism and anarchism are faced with the dominant political system. The fall of Isabel II in 1868 opened the way for a republican government

socio-cultural situation

- positivism, philosophical current that arises after the technical and scientific progress, proposes rigorous observation and experimentation as the only methods to arrive at knowledge of reality. Discarded the romantic trends in the prevailing sentiment and imagination. Surge literary realism that reflects the reality as it is.

- Evolutionism is a new experimental method on the laws of inheritance of Mendez and the evolution of species. This method seeks to explain human behavior. Naturalist writers reflect these trends in his works. Location

literary

Social changes and new ideological currents that arise in the second half of the nineteenth century literary influence. The fantasy and subjectivity of Romanticism, and the free expression of his innermost feelings are replaced by everything that surrounds the man. Naturalism Realism and Romanticism replaced.

REALISM

This literary movement appears in the second half of the nineteenth century as a result of the social circumstances of the time: the consolidation of the bourgeoisie as the ruling class, industrialization, urban growth and the emergence of the proletariat. The basic characteristics of literary realism are

• Elimination of all elements subjective, fantastic facts or feelings that depart from reality.


• rigorous analysis of reality. The writer gives us a portrait rigorous observing.


• problems of human existence , form the central theme of the realist novel, that is the result of high interest for the description of the character, temperament and behavior of the characters. Surge


• a type of novel in which dissects the motivations of characters and customs.


• novelist denounces defects and ills that affect society and provides the reader with solutions to stop them.

THE NATURALISM

Naturalism arises as an outgrowth of Realism, which begins with the author Emile Zola. This stream was aimed explain human behaviors . The novelist of realism seeks to interpret life by describing the social environment and discover the laws governing human behavior .

naturalist writers represent their characters in situations of extreme poverty and marginalization, and liked to describe the low and sordid environments in order to expose the evils of society. The description of these environments as interested in the watch allowed a hostile environment influences on the lifestyle of the characters and what the reactions be human living conditions.

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