Style were using for the piece.

NATURALISM-

They don't think it's the individual's place to change the world, and whatever moral struggle s/he goes through may very well add up to little or nothing.

IMP!!!-- Naturalism's central belief, in fact, is that individual human beings are at the mercy of uncontrollable larger forces that originate both inside and outside them. These forces might include some of our more "animal" drives, such as the need for food, sex, shelter, social dominance, etc. Or, in a more "external" vein, these forces might include the natural environment, the man-made environment, or finance, industry, and the economy.

-Something, though, is always beating down and controlling the lives of lowly individual humans in naturalist works.

-The whole point of this literary movement, in fact, is that this is inevitable. And yes, it�s often pretty grim.


REALISM AND NATURALISM--

One last thing: realist works are generally plot driven, even if only subtly. This means they pivot around conflicts we as readers wait to see resolved. A realist work, then, will typically have at least one protagonist (a main character -- not necessarily a likeable person or a "hero") and one antagonist (another character or a force that will try to prevent the protagonist from getting what s/he wants), and readers will wait to see, as they watch a sequence of increasingly dramatic events, which of them prevails. This is how any standard story works, but it's important to note that realism does these things, too, because the modernist stuff we'll look at later often refuses plot, going in for a more fragmented or "stream of consciousness" style instead.


NOTES:
If you read the previous post, you will see that Opera in the past had first been used to try and instill values into the people in China, teaching them about compassion, kindness, etc. However, at the same time when looking at the types of plays they produced, they did have values incorporated into them, and were not too out of the world, but the purpose of Chinese Opera changed to one of entertainment, not as method to propogate values. Thus, it was realism in the fcat that it has the structure and form. But it is also naturalistc because it has a bleak future ahead of it and presents life as it is. Sometimes societyy wons, while at other times self can win.