The Representative of Superman of the Jack London Type
The Representative of Superman of the Jack London Type ——An Analysis of Buck of the Call of the Wild
ⅠIntroduction 1.1 Introducing the Author Jack London (1876-1916), American writer, who is best known for his stories of adventure set in the Yukon, was an naturalist who wrote in the tradition of Kilpling and Robert Louis Stevenson, his life symbolized the power of will, was the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century. His vigorous stories of men and animals against the environment, and survival against hardships were drawn mainly from his own experience. An illegitimate child, London passed his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums. At the age of 17, he ventured to sea on a sealing ship. The turning point of his life was a thirty-day imprisonment that was so degrading it made him decide to turn to education and pursue a career in writing. His years in the Klondike searching for gold left their mark in his best short stories; among them, The Call of the Wild, and White Fang. His best novel, The Sea-Wolf, was based on his experiences at sea. His work embraced the concepts of unconfined individualism and Darwinism in its exploration of the laws of nature，and he was also a Marxist who is remembered more for his superheroes in his dipition of the exploited masses. London was strongly influenced by his readings in Marx and Hegel, but he also read Herbert Spencer, Darwin, and Nietzsche. The result was a strange amalgation of ideas----a humanitarianism and belief in class solidarity combined with an admiration for individual heroes. Just as London was individualistic, so his place in literary history is anomalous. From his works, readers can find that Superman or Overman is the fondest topic to him, such as Him of Love of Life, Larsen of The Sea Wolf, Martin in Martin Eden and Buck in The Call of the Wild, which refer to his own experiences. The journey to Alaska makes him clearly realize that there is no place for the
ⅠIntroduction 1.1 Introducing the Author Jack London (1876-1916), American writer, who is best known for his stories of adventure set in the Yukon, was an naturalist who wrote in the tradition of Kilpling and Robert Louis Stevenson, his life symbolized the power of will, was the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century. His vigorous stories of men and animals against the environment, and survival against hardships were drawn mainly from his own experience. An illegitimate child, London passed his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums. At the age of 17, he ventured to sea on a sealing ship. The turning point of his life was a thirty-day imprisonment that was so degrading it made him decide to turn to education and pursue a career in writing. His years in the Klondike searching for gold left their mark in his best short stories; among them, The Call of the Wild, and White Fang. His best novel, The Sea-Wolf, was based on his experiences at sea. His work embraced the concepts of unconfined individualism and Darwinism in its exploration of the laws of nature，and he was also a Marxist who is remembered more for his superheroes in his dipition of the exploited masses. London was strongly influenced by his readings in Marx and Hegel, but he also read Herbert Spencer, Darwin, and Nietzsche. The result was a strange amalgation of ideas----a humanitarianism and belief in class solidarity combined with an admiration for individual heroes. Just as London was individualistic, so his place in literary history is anomalous. From his works, readers can find that Superman or Overman is the fondest topic to him, such as Him of Love of Life, Larsen of The Sea Wolf, Martin in Martin Eden and Buck in The Call of the Wild, which refer to his own experiences. The journey to Alaska makes him clearly realize that there is no place for the
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