EAN: 9783954894369

TRANSITION PHASE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY IN AN ...

In his masterpiece An American Tragedy  Theodore Dreiser depicts pains of the American society
during transition to modern age. Youths from the lowest social strata sought ways of
transforming their lives in job markets spawned by industrialization. However  their ambitions
and efforts often ended in a tragedy. Dreiser depicts this through his protagonist  Clyde.
Whereas realism portrays incidents of a society in a realistic manner naturalists go further to
come up with causes and explanations behind the incident. Relying on psychology  chemism and
mechanism  Dreiser portrays how human life is devoid of free will. Though it seems gloomy 
Naturalism does offer optimism. Naturalists believe that human beings can overcome beastly
nature. They can learn to live by reason. Thus  human beings have the potential to achieve a
similar ideal world as envisioned by spiritualism. Naturalistic works imply that its stake
holders are responsible for existing social ills evils. In case of the tragic hero Clyde  it
was the social structure that denied him access to education and better opportunities to craft
a good life.

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