Nolanprice's List: American Lit paper - The Open Boat

• Naturalistic writers use a version of scientific method and apply it to their writing. The study of human beings focuses on their instinct, passion and the ways in which their lives are governed by forces of heredity and environment.
• instinct
• The main challenge often is their attempts at exercising free will or choice that are beyond their control.
• Survival, determination
• are all conflicts that surface in a naturalistic novel.
• "man against nature"
• Nature often acts as an indifferent force that governs the lives of human beings.
• Naturalistic novels display the futile attempts of individuals to exercise their free will.

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