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Characteristics in Literature. Surrealism is meant to be strange and shocking. It is meant to push the envelope in a way that forces people out of their comfortable ideas, so much so that it has even been known to cause riots. While the idea of surrealism is complex, surrealist literature does have common characteristics. Surrealist literature will have contrasting images or ideas. This technique is used to help readers make new connections and expand the reader's reality, or rather the reader's idea of what reality is.
The reality is, Magritte and other Surrealist artists wanted to create work that made the viewer think. None of the art has a solid answer. In fact, Surrealist art has a few characteristics you may notice: 1  Surrealists art often uses dream imagery to show the inner workings of the mind. 2  Surrealists also used symbols as a method of telling a story. 3  Surrealist artists used collage. 4  Art from the Surrealist period included many mediums.