Naturalism
Naturalism in literature is, in essence, an approach that proceeds from an analysis of reality in terms of natural forces like heredity, environment, and physical drives. “Naturalism has its roots in the renaissance, its backgrounds in the Middle Ages.” (Walcutt 4) (ONE) Authors in the Naturalist movement tended to deal with the harsh, often disgusting aspects of life. The subject matter in naturalist works differs from realism in that it often deals with those raw and unpleasant experiences which reduce characters to shameful behavior in their struggle to survive. These characters are mostly from the lower middle or the lower classes. They are poor, uneducated, and unsophisticated. The setting is most often the commonplace and the unheroic, and life is usually the monotonous routine of daily existence. But the naturalist discovers those qualities in such characters usually associated with the heroic or adventurous in their dealings with such everyday and routine happenings. The suggestion is that life on its lowest levels is not so simple as it seems to be. There is also almost always discussion or inference of fate that affects a character, and to that end the controlling force is generally society and the surrounding en
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