3。3 The death of the Charles

“Gold Dream” attracts thousands of people around the world to rush into the north。 They walk through the inaccessible wilderness on the twist roads, they not only exploit natural resources but also damage the local ecological environment which forcing the Indians to compete for limited resources and start killing each other。 The most foolish human Buck met was the Charles'。 Hal whipped the dog team before the line tyrannically in order to show the correctness of his theory, “They are lazy, I tell you, and you've got to whip them to get anything out of them。 That's their way。”(London 31) He even took the axe and knocked Billee on the head as he lay in the traces, at last, they lost their lives on the gold dream road to attempt to conquer the north。 

This is consistent with the theory in Engels' “dialectical Natural Law” which the relationship between man and nature must follows “ the first line wins, the second fails”: We human beings should not overly intoxicated with the victory to the nature, for such a victory like this, the nature is taking revenges against us。 Every victory, in the first line we achieve our desired results, but in the second and the third-line there is an entirely different effect, it often eliminates the first result。(Engels 114）In other words, human beings can never conquer the nature, revel in the transient victory of the nature is stupid, we will suffer from it ultimately , human beings should abandon anthropocentrism, learn to respect the laws of nature, respect for other life, construct a human society in harmony with the nature。