Explain the effects widespread individual alienation had on the development of realism as a literary movement. what factors brought about this sense of alienation? how did realist authors seek to portray this sense of alienation in their works?

The breakup of the British Empire, after World War I, was had a large contributing factor in cultivating the Realism Movement. The thought was that, if something as overwhelmingly powerful as the British Empire can collapse, it naturally leads to a great deal of individual insecurity and uncertainty. People began to question the core of their beliefs concerning both science and religion. This questioning of one's self led to a new search for knowledge outside of the conventional sources.

A psychologist named, Sigmund Freud began to add to this movement away from convention, when he wrote his book "The Interpretation of Dreams". In this work he postulated that dreams hold personal and internal meanings. He took this idea a bit further by saying that if one can interpret and understand these nightly musings, they would be released from inward struggles of the mind and soul. A year later, in 1901, he published a second book entitled "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life". In this book, Freud stated that even a word or phrase that was misspoken, "Freudian Slips," were actually filled with meaning and could indicate a person's inward feelings, that their subconsciencous mind was releasing, though he or she did not even know these feelings existed.These writings would have a huge effect on scientific thought and society as a whole.

Many of the writers of this era began to write of life as they knew it, unpolished and exposed to the light of day. Some of these writers include: James Joye, T.S. Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, and Marl Twain. They felt this sense of alienation and wrote with passion of society's changes.

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