Naturalism
...an only sees one solution, which is that Miss Julie must commit suicide. “Don’t think, don’t think. You’re taking my strength away too and making me a coward. What’s that? I thought I saw the bell move…To be so frightened of a bell! Yes, but it’s not just a bell. There’s somebody behind it-a hand moving it-and something else moving the hand-and if you stop your ears-if you stop your ears-yes, then it rings louder than ever… (The bell rings twice loudly. Jean flinches, then straightens himself up.) It’s horrible. But there’s no way to end it…Go!” The naturalistic force exerted by the Count onto Jean and his own Daughter, Miss Julie, was enough of a factor to lead her to suicide. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” there are two factors which Jane is unable to control. Jane’s post-partum depression in an internal naturalistic factor and her husband, John is an external naturalistic factor. “John is a physician, and – perhaps (I would not say it to a living soul, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind) perhaps that is one reason why I do not get well faster.” John is a naturalistic force that Jane is not able to overcome. Because this story takes place in a time where post-partum depression could not be diagnosed, John does not know how to correctly deal with Jane’s problems. Also he is the man of the house, in a male dominated society. Thus Jane is forced to follow the John’s prescription. However, there is also an internal naturalistic force that controls Jane, and this is her post-partum depression. She is away from her child because of her disorder, and spends her days in solitude because John is always working. The only thing she has left to keep her busy is her avid imagination. This eventually causes her to go insane. “’I’ve got out at last,’ said I, ‘in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!’” Caused by forces that Jane was unable to control, she eventually went insane. In George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant,” the crowd gathering near the narrator can be considered an external naturalistic factor. When confronted with an elephant which had been rampaging through a Burmese village, the narrator had two choices, to shoot the elephant, or let it live. “The Burmese population had no weapons and were quite helpless against it. It had already destroyed somebody’s bamboo hut, killed a cow and raided some fruit-stalls and devoured stock; it also had met the municipal rubbish van and, when the driver jumped out and took to his heals,...