Question

In the space below, copy and paste a passage that expresses a theme or principle of Naturalism implicitly. Then in your own words, state the theme that is suggested but not stated directly in the passage you chose. For the story The open boat.

Answer 1

In the story of the book "The Open Boat" a passage that can implicitly refer to a theme or principle of naturalism can be:

• "The serenity of nature in the midst of the struggles of the individual — nature in the wind and nature in the eyes of men. She did not seem cruel to him, nor beneficent, nor treacherous, nor wise."

Naturalism

Corresponds to a literary genre that focuses on extreme realism where the authors' objective was to demonstrate through their stories how the environment is deterministic to influence human behavior.

For this, concepts of sociology, psychology and biology were used, for example, to be able to explain the human character through scientific theories.

Therefore, in the story "The Open Boat" has as its central theme the struggle between man and the natural world, classifying itself as a naturalist literary genre.

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