Masculinity In To Build A Fire

The Naturalist work, “To Build a Fire” by Jack London excels in the Naturalist idea of determinism. This means that what could happen, most likely will happen. Through the character’s treacherous journey in the snow and frigid temperatures we can see two pieces of masculinity exemplified by our author, the fighter’s mentality, and man’s stubbornness. The main character’s masculine fighter’s mentality demonstrates his will to never give up, and shows men’s perseverance through a Naturalistic view. This means that although the inevitable is bound to happen we can see that our main character never gives up and fights to the very end. He goes round in, and round out with death until death finally wins. Another of these Naturalistic views was …show more content…
Although many Americans still lived secluded from towns, their geography was beginning to change with more and more people moving away from the country and into the city. The main hub for the poets of this era was in Harlem. This brought forth a plethora of modernism to create the Harlem Renaissance. This symbolizes how location can have an impact on the work you do as well. These writers being in one centralized area could utilize each other’s expertise for help, and adopted each other’s beliefs to form many of the same ideas about masculinity and other areas of the creative poet’s mind. An influential piece to the puzzle of this Renaissance era was the poet T. S. Eliot whom is credited with describing the modern man through his poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. In this poem Eliot attempts to divulge the mind of the modern man and emulate the way a man thinks in this modern society. By doing this, Eliot has managed to teach the reader that the modern man is not just blunt, and simple, but rather extremely complicated and his thoughts are like a lock to crack. This new belief of modernisms masculinity show that that it is okay to be shy per the modern man’s …show more content…
Each growing up in a different place and time gave them the ability to use societal views and pressures as influences on their works. Masculinities genesis is simple, initially with the common traits you would think of, such as protection, adventure and working laborers. But these simple traits do evolve into notions like democracy and the use of manners to display who is the alpha dog in society and rounding out, with masculinity being exemplified through the complexity of the male brain by the nation that it can in fact be masculine to think and worry rather than just do. These traits combined shows us that masculinity has changed with the times and will continue to change with society as we continue to progress throughout history into an ever-modernizing world established on the way our culture treats men, and their roles in