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1、关于野性的呼唤中巴克形象的分析The Analysis of the Character of Buck in The Call of WildContentsAbstract.1Key words.1I. Introduction21. Biography of Jack London.22. The origin of The Call of Wild.3II. Literature review.5III. Character Analyzing of Buck.71. General situations of Buck.72. Life-and-death struggles and
2、 surviving in the primitive world.81) Struggle against the violet master and environment 82) Fast-learner and fittest survivor93. Pursuer of the new life and the final independence.94. Fierce and cunning leader10IV. Conclusion.11References.11Abstract: The Call of Wild is the masterpiece of Jack Lond
3、on, who is one of the best novelists in the early 20 century. The canine protagonist of the story and his characters are the main factors to cause his novel perpetual, which embodies the authors thoughts and ideas. The Call of the Wild exemplifies the features of a turn-of-the-century movement known
4、 as literary naturalism. Londons own experience of poverty, grinding factory work, life on the street, and imprisonment had shown him that, for many, life was a brutal struggle for survival. A social Darwinist, influenced by the writings of Herbert Spencer, London was convinced that many of the beat
5、en and degraded people that populated the lower strata of society were there because of hereditary and environmental circumstances effectively beyond their individual control. In this essay, it will mainly analyze the complicate characters of Buck and show why the novel has always been popular.Key w
6、ords: character; analysis; the fittest of survival; 摘要:杰克伦敦作为二十世纪初最伟大的小说家之一,野性的呼唤是其代表作。其中故事的主人公巴克的性格是令这部作品在读者心中长盛不衰的主要原因,而巴克的身上难免赋予了作者的思想。野性的呼唤展示了在世纪之交的一项文学运动自然主义的文学特点。伦敦的贫困经历,如:抛光场的工作, 在街头露宿的日子和牢狱生活都让伦敦明白对多数人来说,生活就是为生机而努力挣扎。作为一个社会达尔文主义者,同时又受到了斯宾塞理论的影响,伦敦认为:之所以有许多社会下层的人们受打击、受压迫就是因为传统的社会环境不受个体的控制。这也在
7、野性的呼唤中得到了充分的放映。本文主要对巴克的多重性格加以分析,从而展示了主人公艺术形象的永久魅力。关键词:性格;分析;适者生存;I. Introduction1. Biography of Jack LondonI wanted to be where the winds of adventure blew, Jack London once wrote of his decision to take to the seas as an oyster pirate at the age of fifteen. There was vastly more romance in being an
8、 oyster pirate or a convict than in being a machine slave. Londons venturesome spirit brought him more adventure before he was twenty-three years old than most people experience in a lifetime. London was a coal shoveler, a sailor, a hobo and a convict all before he entered high school, and when he f
9、inally got to high school he found it so boring he packed his bags and headed for the Yukon in search of gold. London spent his first twenty-three years as an adventurer and a vagabond, but in 1899, after years of fitful trying, he finally began to achieve success as a writer. Before his death in 19
10、16, London wrote nearly two-dozen novels-some of which have become classics of American literature-as well as hundreds of short stories. Today London is remembered as both one of Americas greatest writers and one of the greatest adventure writers of all time.John Griffith London was born in San Fran
11、cisco, the child of a spiritualist, Flora Wellman, and her common-law husband, William Henry Chaney, an itinerant astrologer. Although in later life Chaney denied to London that he was his father, the evidence leaves little doubt of his paternity. The year of her sons birth, Flora Wellman married Jo
12、hn London, who accepted the boy as his own and gave him his name. The familys declining economic condition, the result of Floras get-rich-quick schemes that invariably failed, entailed frequent relocation, so that Londons boyhood was lonely and insecure. By age sixteen, however, he had borrowed the
13、money to buy a sloop and established himself as Prince of the Oyster Pirates on San Francisco Bay. The next year he spent several months as a hand on a sealing schooner working the North Pacific; on his return to San Francisco he won first prize in a newspaper contest with his description of a typho
14、on off the coast of Japan. After a brief but debilitating stint shoveling coal in a power station, London joined in 1894 the western detachment of Coxeys Army for its bonus march on Washington, D.C. He deserted it, however, in the Midwest to ride the rails as a hobo and chicken thief, until in Niaga
15、ra Falls, New York, he was arrested for vagrancy and sentenced to a month in the county prison-experiences he would later recount in The Road (1907). Returning to California, London finished high school in Oakland, joined the Socialist Party, and entered the University of California at Berkeley, whi
16、ch he attended for only one semester in 1896. Like his mother, ambitious to get rich quick, London joined the Klondike gold rush and spent the winter of 1897 in the Yukon, where he found little gold but a rich vein of narrative material that he would mine lucratively in his meteoric rise to literary
17、 fame. Once again in California, but now with an amazing variety of experience for a man of his age, London determined to pursue a career as a writer, or brain worker as he termed it, and began inundating publishers with everything from poetry to philosophical essays-at first to no avail. But in 189
18、9 he sold his first stories, the most financially rewarding of which was a science-fiction tale, A Thousand Deaths (collected in Curious Fragments, 1975), for which he was paid forty dollars. This sale allowed him to pay off his debts and confirmed his decision to be a writer.2. The origin of The Ca
19、ll of WildIn July of 1897 two ships docked in San Francisco and Seattle carrying bags of gold discovered in the Yukon territory of Alaska. The United States was experiencing an economic recession, and many men were out of work. For men desperate for work and money, the news of gold free for the taki
20、ng was like dropping a match in a hayloft. About one hundred thousand men set off for the Yukon, determined to make their fortune. Though the United States had purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, Canada technically owned the Yukon territory where the gold had been discovered. Consequently, Canada
21、made the rules and regulations whereby gold-seekers could enter the territory.Determined to keep order, the Canadian police decreed that in order to enter the territory, travelers must carry a years worth of gear and supplies. Of course, this was such a prodigious weight that many were obliged to ab
22、andon most of their supplies along the trail when they proved too heavy to bear. Consequently, the real gold-rush proved to be for those selling supplies and providing other services at unheard of premiums.London was soon caught in the gold rush frenzy. On July 25, 1897, he sailed for the Klondike a
23、board the SS Umatilla. On board the ship, London found three other miners who agreed to form a team. The four men could hardly have known of the perils that would soon confront them as they spied the imposing Coast Range which separated them from gold.Jack London spent a single winter in the Canadia
24、n North during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898. The gold rush did not make London rich, but it furnished him with plenty of material for his career as a writer, which began in the late 1890s and continued until his death in 1916. He worked as a reporter, covering the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 a
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