FIlm and Literature: What is Reality

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recreations, as Munsterburg says, which are used throughout your interpretation of the story. This is the object of reality within literature, if it is done well, through elaborate description and intricate adjective use. Though visual reality is a large part of the complete reality of a story, one must still identify with the characters through feelings and emotions.
Literature broadcasts characters feelings throughout the story, once again by narration and elaborate description. Here is where a reader must take those plastic figures and establish a facial expression atop these imaginary figures. The final and possibly most important factor of reality in art is a time and place factor. In the literary art, all scenes must take place in the order in which they happen, they have to follow the laws of causality. For example, if the narrator states that two situations occur simultaneously, the reader will automatically think that the one read first occurred first. This is one element that takes the reader a little away from reality.
In film, the majority of reality is brought to the sp...