Realism is a literary movement that emphasizes the depiction of contemporary life and society as it exists or has existed. In this time period, many authors base their stories on materialism, Darwinism, and Marxism. Materialism is the belief in separating people based on their social status. Darwinism is the belief in “survival of the fittest,” meaning that one species will always outlive another. Marxism is the belief of how money and class structure control a nation. In this style of writing, they make the universe unpredictable and make fate determined by chance. Furthermore, the characters' lives are transformed by their surroundings rather than internal conflicts. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell uses modernist and realistic ways of writing such as dominant mood, naturalism, and setting to criticize big game hunting, Darwinism, and the Russian Civil War and its effect on people. ”, is based on the theories of Darwinism, big game hunting and the Russian civil war. In the 19th century, Charles Darwin developed the idea of ​​natural selection and survival of the fittest. These ideas were the natural process by which only organisms best adapted to their environment tend to survive and pass on these genes to subsequent generations. Those who fail to adapt to their environment will most likely die. Big game hunting was the belief in hunting dangerous species in South America. In South America, jaguars represented a great prize if killed because jaguars were "the most powerful and feared carnivore in South America" ​​(Literature and Its Times 232). The Russian Civil War was between the Bolsheviks (red) and their opponents (white). The whites consisted of a mixture of Cossacks and...... half of the paper......r. Connell uses the setting to criticize the Russian Civil War. Realism is a literary style in which familiar aspects of life are depicted in a direct and simple manner. Many authors, including Richard Connell, use realistic ways of writing, as well as materialism, Darwinism, and Marxism to criticize people's ideas at the time. With this type of writing style, the story is capricious, meaning that the outcome cannot be predicted as easily as one might think. Connell uses the dominant mood, setting, and naturalism to critique the way people thought in “The Most Dangerous Game.” It also uses historical events such as Darwinism, big game hunting, and the Russian Civil War to develop a story that mirrors what was happening between the years 1845 and 1945. This specific time period allows Connell to write a story making judgment on different points of view. others.