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Stephen Crane's "The Open Book": Determinism, Objectivity, And Pessimism
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In Stephen Crane's short story “The Open Boat”, the American
literary school of naturalism is used and three of the eight features are
most apparent, making this work, in my opinion, a good example of the
school of naturalism. These three of t .... Middle of Term Paper
... in her.” The characters had no control
over their boat, rather nature was totally in control. “She seemed just a
wee thing wallowing, miraculously top up, at the mercy of the five oceans.
Occasionally a great spread of water, like white flames, swarmed into her.”
(pg.145) There is also a sense that man is totally not important to the
natural forces controlling his fate. “When it occurs to man that nature
does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the
universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the
temple, and he hates deeply that there are no bricks and no temples.”
(pg156) The one charac ... |
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