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Compare And Contrast Jungle And Maggie
Stephan Crane's "Maggie: A Girl of the Street" and Upton Sinclair's "Jungle" are both representing the real life when they are compared with each other. The events and the opinions in these short stories are corresponding with naturalistic thought and it is showed by observation technique to the readers. The characters of the stories are become the victims of the social laws that they are struggling to breach the social and economic problems which are set upon them at birth. Thus, it is important to fit the characters to ‘naturalism' because the social circumstances, even environments, are natural and hence unavoidable. When both these stories are read, it is seen that they fit to all these aspects of ‘naturalism'.
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