Death of a Naturalist

English naturalist and biologist. It generated fierce controversy between churchmen and scientist, which has not entirely subsided to this day. Charles Darwin had written a book about beauty and he had quoted this “Charles Darwin once said that, if everyone was cast in the same mold, there would be no such thing as beauty”. This book was one of his best sellers (Charles Darwin 80). Charles Darwin had died at the age of 73 at his hometown Downer, Kent, England, at west minister abbey (his death…

The preface of Miss Julie also develops the aesthetics of the modern theatre which as a result presents a showcase of the naturalist theatre. Within the ‘Preface’, readers are propelled to get an understanding of the play basing on the co-existence of naturalism. This therefore structures the entire play and stresses the significance of the dialectic. The characters in the play…

to the Imaginary. Madsen argues that Edna’s early loss of her mother disrupts the normal Electra complex and instead leaves Edna in psychosexual allegiance with her father, but with “no model of feminine gender construction” (112). Edna’s mother’s death removes young Edna’s possibility of returning to “pre-Oedipal identification with her mother” (113). Because of this disruption, Edna never fully developed. As she begins her awakening, Edna begins to shift her allegiance back from masculine to…

interested in comparing the cognitive processing of traumatic events with talking and social constraints on talking among the mother about the death of their infants. The main traumatic events to the mother may effects them psychologically or emotionally. The effects may make them thinking or belief on unimportant issues related to the death of their Infant. The death of traumatic experience are in two basic forms, which is intrapsychic, talking with the others. Intrapsychic can be negative,…

philosophical viewpoints to literature in order to identify underlying causes of a person’s behavior. Naturalists believed that a person’s circumstances, whether they be hereditary or social, ultimately determine a person’s behavior throughout life (Rhan). Every aspect of a human was thought to be directly related to the natural world. Human beings were thought of as “human beasts,” a phrase coined by French Naturalist writer Emile Zola.…

characters can do little to prevent or change their fate against the environment. Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution was used in Naturalist fiction to support these ideas. The Theory of Evolution is based off of natural selection and “survival of the fittest” concepts. Naturalist authors “[looked] at human life as a grim losing battle” (Arpin 421). Some influential Naturalist authors include Jack London, Stephan Crane, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser. Though some say that Mark Twain was…

The first lesson is to listen and heed warnings. The old man in the story was warned not to go into the Yukon by himself. The temperatures were 50 below zero and nature can be unforgiving. The old man did not listen and ultimately this lead to his death. The second lesson is to listen and observe the things around you. The old man had opportunities to turn back and save his own life. His spit was freezing, the dog was nervous about continuing and his knife was frozen. Nature kept throwing…

As much as we credit Darwin for the theory of evolution, he in fact was not the first naturalist to propose this idea that species somehow change over a period of time into new species with different characteristics. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck was both a naturalist and a botanist with extreme expertise in invertebrates. Before 1800 Lamarck believed that the idea of evolution was impossible. The developing fossil record and concept behind extinction most likely…

The Philosopher, Poet, and Journalist: Henry David Thoreau “The world is but a canvas to our imagination.” Henry David Thoreau was an American writer known for his naturalist and philosophical writings. Most people remember Henry for his book Walden, where he spent two years at Ralph Waldo Emerson’s pond, Walden Pond. “He also became known for his beliefs in Transcendentalism and civil disobedience, and was a dedicated abolitionist” (Biography.com). Without writers like Thoreau, our…

In the play, Miss Julie, Strindberg has effectively incorporated the theory of naturalism; the theory of naturalism encompassed the idea that a person and their motivations are rooted from their environment and their ancestry. In the case of Miss Julie, the daughter of a Count, she was ultimately thought to have gained the upper hand by being born into a family of status. However, her position in society quickly deteriorates when her engagement is broken off and she copulates with Jean, the…