Survival in Jack London's The Call of The Wild and White Fang
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2022
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Man’s anthropocentric perspective towards nature, which paves way to the destruction of species
and natural resoruces in the last instance, stands out as a great drawback for the correction such of
contemporary environmental situations. Authored by Jack London during his Klondike Gold Rush
adventure, The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906), for example, can be counted
among the works of eco-criticism that mirrors and criticizes man’s egocentric attitude towards
nature and puts the usage of dogs as sled dogs and transitioning their nature by force during the
Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1899) into the focal point of the criticism.
In his The Call of the Wild (1903), London tries to show us, through the story of the central
character Buck, how heartless and disrespectful can man become towards nature when he acts self centeredly. By reflecting the role of environmental factors in easing or aggravating the survival of
Buck, and portraying how Buck is forcibly transitioned to a primitive beast from a domestic pet by
men, London both criticizes this kind of a touch of men to nature, and implies his inclination
towards naturalism in the works mentioned above. In his White Fang (1906), London tells the
story of a wild dog, White Fang that has to adapt to the domestic environment to survive. This
study aims to analyse Jack London’s The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) in terms
of survival examples.
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Survival, environment, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, White Fang
