Advantages of Realism in literary works

Realism can help or hamper a writer’s ability to get a point across. Realism is an intent to portray reality as it is and a lack of realism is represented by plot lines that never could happen. That can disengage you from a story rather than draw you further into it. For example, any book in the fantasy genre is highly unrealistic but there can still be realism in even though the stories themselves could never happen. When the actions of the characters are realistic, it doesn’t even matter whether the plot is true to life, because the people in it are real and act real enough and that’s what realism is. There are other writers who write about characters who act unnaturally and therefore we, as the readers, do not relate to the story as much, feeling that some of the actions of the characters are implausible. The result makes the plot feel forced or contrived. It’s important to have well-rounded characters whose motivations and reflections influence their decisions. A characterâ...