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? It aims at a truthful representation陳述 of human behavior and surroundings or figures and objects客觀事物 exactly as they act or appear in life. ? Attempts at realism have been made several times throughout history in all the arts, but the term詞匯 is generally restricted限定約束 to a movement that began in the mid19th century, in reaction to the highly subjective主觀 approach of Romanticism. ? It was in opposition to Romanticism’ s emphasis on feelings and imaginations, which was believed as an escape from reality by the writers of Realism. ? The world reflected in Romantic writers’ works was false and the romantic works were considered too sentimental by the realists. ? It began in France in the novels of Flaubert and the short s