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Naturalism ( )

Context Misery for people who were not of the higher classes Post civil-war Post native wars Immigration Urbanisation Industrialisation: monopoly, conglomerates Massive strikes (farmers, railway)

What is naturalism? A belief that claims that all that exists in the universe is physical, material matter; no soul; we are just a complex collection of neurons There is no Creator; there is evolution. Experiences like pain, pleasure, beauty, and a sense of self do not really exist. They are merely physiological reactions.

Naturalism in literature? A work that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its study of human beings. Naturalism implies a philosophical position: for naturalistic writers, since human beings are, in Emile Zola's phrase, "human beasts," characters can be studied through their relationships to their surroundings. The Naturalist believed in studying human beings as though they were "products" that are to be studied impartially, without moralizing about their natures.

Naturalism in literature? Writers studied human beings governed by their instincts and passions as well as the ways in which the characters' lives were governed by forces of heredity and environment. Naturalism is based more on scientific studies. Darwin's Theory of Evolution is a basis for the Naturalist writer. Natural selection and survival of the fittest help to depict the struggle against nature as a hopeless fight.

Characteristics Objective Detached method of narration Language--formal; piling on of images ("wretched excess") Human beings unable to stand up against enormous weight of circumstances and nature Heredity determines character Violence--force against force Animal imagery Characters--lower socioeconomic class Static characters Pessimistic & materialistic Characters conditioned or controlled by environment, heredity, instinct or chance but they have a compensating humanistic value that affirms the significance of the individual (Pizer). Characters do not have free will (determinism)

Themes 1.Walcutt identifies survival, determinism, violence, and taboo as key themes. 2. The "brute within" each individual, composed of strong and often warring emotions: passions, such as lust, greed, or the desire for dominance or pleasure; and the fight for survival in an amoral, indifferent universe. The conflict in naturalistic novels is often "man against nature" or "man against himself" as characters struggle to retain a "veneer of civilization" despite external pressures that threaten to release the "brute within."

Themes 3. Nature as an indifferent force acting on the lives of human beings. The romantic vision of Wordsworth--that "nature never did betray the heart that loved her"--here becomes Stephen Crane's view in "The Open Boat": "This tower was a giant, standing with its back to the plight of the ants. It represented in a degree, to the correspondent, the serenity of nature amid the struggles of the individual--nature in the wind, and nature in the vision of men. She did not seem cruel to him then, nor beneficent, nor treacherous, nor wise. But she was indifferent, flatly indifferent."

Themes 4. The forces of heredity and environment as they affect-- and afflict--individual lives. 5. An indifferent, deterministic universe. Naturalistic texts often describe the futile attempts of human beings to exercise free will, often ironically presented, in this universe that reveals free will as an illusion.