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Literary naturalism first appeared in France during the late 1850s to 1880s, when great social changes and tremendous progress blossomed from all sides of society. Naturalism goes slightly after realism which focuses mainly on the ones belonging to the so-called higher social status. Along with the blooming of Industrial Revolution, the replace of manual operation by machinery ones led to unemployment. The rapid development of capitalism and technology calls for the new literary reform.

In the beginning of 20th century and late 19th century, the emergence of a new literary trends in the field of American literature. New themes in literature，and new creative style are very different from the mainstream early literature. Some people are warmly welcomed, some people are quite frightened, and some people are confused. This is what was later known literary trends naturalism. In this literary movement, people saw optimistic idealism shattered, humans were not perfect in all aspects, as well as the development and progress of the society full of eager, talented young American writer Stephen Crane was one of the pioneers of this naturalistic Literature.

Stephen Crane was born in 1871 in the United States, New Jersey, home of many brothers and sisters , ranked fourth , parents were Methodists. At the age of 21 Stephen Crane published works , a minor celebrity at age 24 , died of tuberculosis at age 29 . In the nine years of his brief literary career, he published six novels, six collections of short stories , two poetry collection and a drama . His life was like a meteor rush across the American literary sky , fleeting, regrettable , but marvel. In 1891, Crane dropped out of college and went to work for a newspaper boy in New York. When ...

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...o undergo positive selection in the absurd and nothingness, in this option reflects the human nature strength.

In the story, it completely and systematically demonstrates the struggle and comparison of strength between men and nature as well as the state of man's fate and his final failure. The author adopts the naturalism and impressionism technique, strokes and sometime transcendent, and personal multi-angle performance of the forces of natures faced by the heroes and their reaction in the harsh natural environment, as well as their relationship with the natural world. During the process of novel development is actually the process of struggles between man and nature. The story begins with camera boat, the nature, the wave of fury, and the small tiny boat, it has a rich symbolic meaning in naturalistic fiction that human power in the vast universe is negligible.