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The Call of the Wild shows the author’s Ecological Consciousness through a dog’s experience. The dog’s name is Buck. Due to the force of the master, Buck returned to the wild gradually. The novel tells a story of a dog, but it reflects the world of human beings. Buck lived in Judge Miller’s home before. After the enlightenment of civilization, he has lived in a warm valley in California of the southern United States. After being sold to the cold and remote place in northern United States which is rich in gold in Alaska, he became a sled dog. His experience there reflected human’s greed. On the whole, the novel shows Jack London’s ecological consciousness.
The novel records the germination of Jack London’s ecological thoughts. It shows animal fables in a metaphorical way and warned the capitalist to pay attention to the potential ecological crisis. What’s more, the novel shows deep analysis about the ecological views of anthropocentrism in that period. It also embodies the social consciousness and suffering consciousness. In addition, he novel mainly discussed the consciousness--the ecological balance of the harmonious coexistence between man and nature. As a result, the novel showed its typical ecological characteristics. 源`自·优尔.文/论:文'网,www.youerw.com
Under the background of the fusion culture, Jack London’s works have caused a heated discussion. Many Chinese scholars have made some research about Lack London’s works. Jiao Jianping, who writes “The Heroic Complex of Jack London” thinks that Jack London’s novels are full of heroism and present the appearance of superman’s color, which can give readers positive interpretation of meaning of life and these novels have become an important part of the American spirit nowadays (Jiao Jianping 4). Li Liang, mainly discusses about Jack London’s animal novels in shaping the animal image, theme and common factors of artistic expression(Li Liang 6). This novel comprehensively reflects the author's philosophy of life Its writing technique is naturalism, the perfect combination of realism, transcendentalist (Li Xingliang 6).
Some foreign scholars think that Jack London gives us deep thought and offers new ecological consciousness over his time. Jan Burns hold the view that Jack London’s novel is full of the consideration of natural ontology and the relationship between man and nature, nature and civilization (Jan Burns 12). The novel was mainly concentrated on the undeveloped and wilderness areas and revealed the human’s desires to conquer nature (Courbier-Tavenier, 1999).Human beings only care about the cruel relationship of competition and they ignored people’s spiritual crisis (Ellen 24). These researches show Jack London’s ecological consciousness when facing various crises in reality. It is easy to see that Jack London focuses more on ecological problems in his novels.
All in all, these papers discuss the work of Jack London, the relationship between man and nature in ecological ethics, etc. And it is generally believed that some works of Jack London contains the ecological factors. And these studies laid the foundation for the further study of Jack London ecological consciousness in his novels.