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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