Realism was introduced because the world began to shift towards showing the reality of things. This was partly because of the invention of the camera and photography. Now that you could capture a moment and see exactly what it looks like, writers wanted to do the same thing and depict the truth with their writings. According to Elaine Freegood, it is not so easy to portray the truth without faultering at some point. Freegood goes on explaining that without being an actual dressmaker, it is hard to portray what a real dressmaker goes through in life. To do this, one must not forget to represent the social and individual experiences of the character in the novel in detail. Freegood goes on to talk about George Eliot and his fiction.

Although Eliot’s novel is fiction, the way she portrays the men in the novel are based on having dealing with them and the kinds of things encountered. Because it’s her own personal experience, I believe her criticism can be vouched for as true. Eliot endulges and find her writing to be like Dutch paintings because they show the ugliness of people. That there is beauty in a painting even if the subject is horrid like in her writings. The truth is of the same caliber. It can be ugly but where is the beauty in representing something of falsehood?