Stephen Crane And Naturalism

Literary naturalism is a literary time in history. Literature is broken up into time periods just like history. Naturalism is one of the literary time periods. It has to do with history because writers often base their writings on what is going on in society and the state of the country at the time (Campbell).
"Naturalism is an extension of realism....it is the application of scientific determination to literature."
(Brucker). Naturalism was written to give the authors point of view. During the naturalism time period one of the key themes of the writers was survival and determination. (Campbell). "From Darwin it takes biological determinism". (Brucker). The conflict in the stories was a fight for survival. In other words, It's like saying survival of the
This way of thinking came to be known as Social Darwinism. (Rahn). The time period that it was written was the late 1890's to early 19th century. (Rahn). The naturalist author describes his characters as though they are conditioned and controlled by the environment, heredity, instinct or chance. (Rahn). Stephen Crane is a known naturalism author. He was born November 1, 1871 and died June 5, 1900. Crane was the ninth child with thirteen siblings with protestant Methodist parents. Crane learned to read at the age of four. In December 1879 Crane wrote a poem titled "I'd rather have _____". It is Crane's first known poem and it is about him wanting a dog for Christmas. ("Stephen Crane"). Stephen Crane published several articles by the age of sixteen.
He had little interest in studies and left college to begin his career as a journalistin 1891. His first work of literary naturalism was a novel titled "Maggie: AGirl of the Streets." ("Stephen Crane"). Stephen Crane's most popular book is "The Red Badge of Courage", which is a story about a soldiers experience during the Civil War. Crame wamted tje stpru tp be a "psychological portrait of