The Coexistence of Good and Evil: Exploitation of Human Nature in The Call of the Wild

Tiannan ZHOU, Xiaojuan YAO

Abstract


Jack London, one of the great American writers, is not a writer just good at animal novels as some critics assumed. Human nature is embodied from all angles in the story of the animal. Influenced by Zola and Darwin, London tries to illustrate the darwinism and socialism in the novel. Therefore, it is more objective when we interpret the optimistic and fatalistic, active and reclusive human nature that Jack London believed from the naturalism point of view.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/n

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