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    Um happened around the time period 1885 to 1930.

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    It was a movement that was inspired by adaptation of

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    the principles and methods of natural science, especially the Darwinian

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    view of nature to literature.

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    five Characteristics of literary naturalism, our scientific detachment, determinism, pessimism,

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    poverty and miserable circumstances and an indifferent or hostile nature.

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    Naturalism was a branch of realism like realism and depicted

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    real people in real situations, but naturalists also believed in

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    force is larger than the individual like nature.

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    Fate and heredity.

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    Naturalists believed that these forces shaped individuals and their destiny.

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    Naturalism often included themes of survival, determinism and violence.

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    Naturalist writers often focused on a character's unique characteristics.

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    Naturalism also differed from realism in its assumption of scientific

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    determinism, which led naturalistic authors to emphasize man's accidental psychological

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    nature rather than his moral or rational qualities.

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    Individual characters were seen as helpless products of heredity and

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    environment, motivated by strong instinctual drives from within and harassed

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    by social and economic pressures from without.

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    As such, they had little will responsibility for their faith,

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    and the prognosis for their cases was usually the pessimistic

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    outset, moving on to our first author of the movement,

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    Jack London