Jack London's "In a Far Country" as a work of American literary naturalism

Jack London's "In a Far Country" as a work of American literary naturalism

American Literary Naturalism in Jack London’s: “In A Far Country”
Every man for himself. There is no prince charming, no magic, no exaggeration, and no false sympathy. This is the epitome of our most sublime emotions, as seen and felt in a world “indifferent to human suffering”: American literary naturalism (EDSITEment).                                                                                                                                                             Exactly opposite of Romanticism in which artists found God in every grain of life, and nature so filled with empathy as to rain when one is sad, the genre of American literary naturalism depicts no God, or one who at the very most, does not care. Because there is no God, man looks to himself as the only source of strength, and every story naturally then, followed a plot of decline (Ugi). Other themes common in Naturalism include “the Brute within”, heredity and environment, and an indifferent deterministic universe, as shown in Jack London’s “In a Far Country” (EDSITEment).
“In a Far Country” is a story of two lazy and complaining men who abandoned their team on a mission for Artic gold. The two lodge in a cabin in the North. In the beginning they fared well together, and ran to accomplish every task, to prove themselves to one another. However as time progressed, their true colors showed. They neglected cleaning themselves, divided up the food, and sat for long periods of time trying to ignore the other’s existence. Always being suspicious, and selfish, they were constantly paranoid. Both become unbearably ill with scurvy and, in the end, they die in a fight over sugar.   From adventure and romance to degeneration and death, this is a classic plot of decline.
According to Donna Campbell, of Washington State University, “the Brute within” is: “each individual, composed of strong and often warring emotions: passions, such as lust, greed, or the desire for...