Naturalism Related in Literature Naturalism, in literature, is the attempt to apply scientific theory and methods to imaginative writing. Naturalists concentrate on the physical world to the exclusion of the supernatural. Also, naturalists believe that everything a person does is determined by his or her heredity, or environment, or both. They try to show that people are trapped by one or both of these great forces over which they have no control. An excerpt that …
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…why it broke. The third match was blown out by the wind. If the environment surrounding the man had not be as it was, he might've been able to light the match and survive. Both science and the environment play a part in how naturalism is portrayed in literature. Through the writing of Jack London, it is shown how certain scientific and environmental theories can be applied in literature and related to the physical world.