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Naturalism Essay

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In the stories, “To Build a Fire”, “The Jungle”, and “Food Product Design”, the authors of each story want the readers to recognize the question: What aspect of naturalism they use to reveal the reality in our lives? To specify and reveal this, the authors use conflicts and ideals which are men’s ability to conquer the environment and people cannot change their destiny to signify naturalism. Naturalism is a literary movement that emphasizes on the observation of reality. It is mainly from Charles Darwin 's Darwinism that nature is beyond one 's control. It mainly focuses on these things. First, it centres on man 's ability to conquer the environment and shows human 's struggle and downfalls. Next, it underlines how characters are controlled …show more content…

In the story, Sinclair not only shows the aspects of naturalism but also shows the aspects of realism. No matter how we try, we cannot get away with our destiny. In this story, the main character Jurgis cannot break way from the poverty how much he tries. He and his family is in a gloomy mood, showing the dark side of mundane human life. This conveys the conflict of man versus society. Actually, there is a controversy that whether this conflict should be in the six types of conflicts or not. Some say that this should be the sixth one and others claim that the conflict man versus destiny or fate is the one. However, in this story, the conflict man versus society is the mostly conveys the main conflicts shown in this story- daily human life. The story mainly talks about the struggles Jurgis face inn. This story also shows aspect of naturalism that he is fighting against to the world wanting better lives, but fails to win it. He failed to change his destiny how much me tries. This story also contains the view of realism. Unlike naturalism, realism takes place in ordinary settings like this one. Also, it focuses on how individuals carry on. As a whole, Sinclair’s usage of different rhetorical devices show how people in that era suffered because of the environment they could not overcome

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