Ecological Consciousness Of Jack London's Novels

Jack London is one of the famous American novelists in late 19th and early 20th. In his life, He experienced ups and downs and created a lot of work. He has published 50 books in the 18-year writing career. known as a world class writer, Jack London is the product of the times but he went to the front. With the global ecological environment is deteriorating, Jack London's novels contained in nature, society, human survival and development increasingly attract the world's attention. So I tried to use text analysis, combined with criticism of ecological point of view, to get a comprehensive interpretation about profound implication of the ecological consciousness of Jack London's novels.This article from the introduction, body and conclusion parts.Introduction Summary of domestic and foreign scholars, Jack London's novels research status, pointing out the topics of this article;Although the previous research made great achievements, but there have no comprehensive analysis of his novels which focus on ecological consciousness. Jack London novelThe main body of this article discusses the performance and content about ecological consciousness of Jack London's novels, Divided into three chapters: The first chapter describes the ecological sense of urgency of Jack London's novels. On " The Sea-Wolf", "All Gold Canyon", "Martin Eden," "Under the Deck Awnings " and several novels, revealing the writer'cocernness about nature,society and spirit when face animals were killed, the resource is over to be seized, interpersonal alienation and personal beliefs and various other crises .The second chapter describes the ecological critical consciousness of Jack London's novels. " The Call of the Wild," " The White Fang" "The Apostate," "The White Silence " and several, for example, show the writer's criticism of industrial civilization and cities, expansion of the human desire and anthropocentrism. The third chapter describes the ecological salvation of Jack London's novels. "Burning Daylight " " the Valley of the Moon " as an example, showing the writer's efforts and attempt to seek a road which can rescue the crisis: Using a universal love of life and fear of man and nature to realize the reconciliation between people; fall in love with a woman, make a family, and build a harmonious ecological ethics of gender; build an eco-utopia in the country and rebuild the natural sound of humanity in this place.Conclusion summarizes main points of the paper, pointed out that the root causes of ecological consciousness and significance of Jack London's novels . Ecological consciousness of Jack London's novels not only reflect a certain historical heritage and forward-looking, and also closely linked to the writer's life experiences. Jack London's novels alertness of the ecological crisis and how to harmony of nature in the modern industrial civilization have an important reference on the modern meaning.