Huck and Fred's Excellent Adventure...From Bogus Man to Righteous Dude.

An Integrated, Interdisciplinary, Thematic Study of 19th Century American Realism and Seeking Truth: Morality Vs Legality from Douglass to Twain. The Realism Period is an important influence on succeeding times of American Literature because authors attempted to present life as they saw it in contrast to the previous Romantic influence where individualism, idealism and intuition were dominant In the last half of the nineteenth century, the literary trend of realism, unlike the term implies, blurred the distinction between fact and perception. Developments in science and technology challenged many traditional beliefs regarding religion, race, war, family, etc. Two significant events characterized this time period between the writings of Douglass and Twain, the American Civil War and the publishing of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1863. People questioned their beliefs about not only about the nature of man but also more importantly about themselves. However, reality was not as absol