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NATURALISM: The more sinister view of influences shaping human destiny

NATURALISM: The more sinister view of influences shaping human destiny . Eero Järnefelt Under the Yoke (Burning the Brushwood), 1893. Naturalism. Subjects of Naturalism Writing

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NATURALISM: The more sinister view of influences shaping human destiny

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  1. NATURALISM: The more sinister view of influences shaping human destiny Eero Järnefelt Under the Yoke (Burning the Brushwood), 1893

  2. Naturalism Subjects of Naturalism Writing • 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." • Nature as an indifferent force acting on the lives of human beings. • The forces of heredity and environment as they affect--and afflict--individual lives. • Naturalistic texts often describe the futile (useless) attempts of human beings to exercise free will, often ironically presented, in this universe that reveals free will as an illusion.

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