Essay --

Stephen Crane launch the raw(a)ist style in literature, where concepts from real life are reconstruct in a fictional context to exemplify the plight of those trap in the lower dregs of society. Naturalistic writers depict their characters as individuals ladened by their environment their acts are based upon their need to survive and the loving order they fall into. The ideals of reality claim that human beings are non destitute, but that their actions are controlled and pre-determined mostly by the setting they inhabit and the natural or learned traits they possess. Keith Fudge, author of Sisterhood Born from Seduction Susanna Rowsons Charlotte Temple, and Stephen Cranes Maggie Johnson states that Maggie A Girl of the Streets has been recognized as naturalisms first apologue (Fudge 43). The scientific philosophy comprised in naturalism originated from Charles Darwins theories of evolution that claim that only the fittest testament survive. Throughout the novel, legion(pre dicate) degrees of survival and extinction are depicted whether it is by Jimmie, Mary, Nell, or Maggie herself. Maggie A Girl of the Streets is indeed a naturalistic tale of both somatogenic and mental survival. Cranes use of setting, tone, characters, and concepts of Darwinism illustrate this unequivocally. I will begin by fleshing out the concepts of Darwinism and Social Darwinism in the context of the novel and its relation to naturalism. Clarence Darrow spoke this famous line that exemplifies Social Darwinisms philosophy, which is universally misattributed to Charles Darwin, It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most universal to tilt. The environment is of significant importance to s... ... of moral sense retributory as it exist in the Galapagos Islands of Darwin. Crane inserts isolated statements which serve to strengthen the Darwinian aspects of the novella. There is a zeitgeist of natural history that runs th roughout. The matter of fact retelling of dreadful events, such as when Crane writes, The babe, Tommie, died. He went away in an insignificant coffin, his small waxen hand clutching a flower that the girl, Maggie, had stolen from an Italian, she and Jimmie lived. helps ignite this point. The first example of Naturalist literature, this novella is original in its woo to literary theory it is not overly explicit nor does it call for change or revolution in a Marxist fashion, it is unadorned and free of opinion. Maggie Girl a Girl of the Streets solely recounts what is observable and the rules that are know to be true in the natural world.