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Answering these questions enables you to relate material from the text to your own personal experiences.
  1. Do today’s sophisticated technologies contribute to realism in the arts, as they seem to have done in the nineteenth century? Why or why not?
  2. Viewers of Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe initially responded to its public display by attacking the canvas with their umbrellas. What kind of art might evoke (or has evoked) a comparable response in our own time?
  3. What kind of art, if any, do you personally find offensive?
  4. Compare Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with the popular musical drama, Miss Saigon, or his La Bohème with the musical, Rent. Which evokes the greater affective response? Why?
  5. How does the satiric realism of Twain’s Huckleberry Finn compare with that of other great literary satires, such as Voltaire’s Candide (see chapter 25)?
  6. Compare the excerpt from Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop with Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto.





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