Comparing Naturalism In The Blue Hotel And The Open Boat

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Naturalism includes stories based on movements by authors in my opinion. From what we learned in class and what the PowerPoints they were all based on this notion of panic and social change in America. We see issues that authors like Stephen Crane used in his stories that focused on nature, ambiguity and this relationship between Realism and Naturalism. His stories “The Blue Hotel” and “The Open Boat” are very much Naturalist works due to Crane’s kinship of mankind having ethical obligations. Crane used this opportunity to then toil with the human mind by instinctive human behavior when faced with life or death situations.
Both of Crane’s stories revolve around a group of men, “The Blue Hotel” you see the Swede, the cowboy and a silent little man from the East. In “The Open Boat” you see a cook, a captain, an oiler, and a correspondent. These to two stories are similar in a sense that they both revolve around some type of conflict that ends in death to one individual. In “The Blue Hotel” we see three men …show more content…

“The Open Boat” is similar because these men are hoping for refuge at “Mosquito Light Inlet” but they are faced with waves, which symbolizes of survival of the fittest. Now between both of these stories nature is surrounded in them, “The Blue Hotel” the fight between the Swede and Johnnie is described like animal attacks examples are “panther-fashion” (1794) and another like “in a calm that had the elements of leonine cruelty in it” (1795) which can seem to illustrate that people are like human beast. After winning the fight still high off his victory the Swede walks into the towns bar like an aggressive bear looking for trouble and seeks some men to drink with him. When the Swede provokes the gambler and then grabbing

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