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Reading The Awareness Of Jack London's Life

Posted on:2010-06-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W H ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360278951230Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Jake London is the American modern renowned writer, but the attention that the literary world paid to him isn't very much. the characteristic of Jake London's work is from own start, by own conclusion. therefore this present paper plans to explain his life consciousness through its work analysis. The paper mainly includes three following aspects:Ιtest the pursue and vanish: See Jake. London's life nature from "Martin. Iraq". This part mainly show the course of their lives through Jack London's quasi-autobiographical novel "Martin Eden": the hardships of childhood, reading, learning and writing beyond the ordinary people's perseverance to ideal love, the difficulty in his literary career and fame, the courage to persist in the end, the beautiful first love and several regret. Martin's struggle soaks into the whole of Jack London's life, the bitter struggle filled with blood and tears, Martin's character that is strong and forceful embodies his own. there are two essentially different, however, Jack London copies the end of Martin ultimately.Ⅱtest fighting is for survival: Jack London's exploration of the value of life. This part highlights the value of Jack London's life by analysing the tough image from his three works:the anonymous "he" demonstrates the strength of survival instinct in "Love life" to the people; Livla who is in the "Mexicans" shows the determination could overcome everything; Martin practises that the dream creates all possible success by his unyielding efforts in "Martin Eden". One can defeat all with his own determination in order to survive, his idea and Careers.Which is reminiscent of Hemingway's tough guys,there are some differences from their mentality:Jack's figures are positive, optimistic,and they achieve the ainsby their own efforts, Hemingway's figures have more emotional confusion.Ⅲtest the survival of loneliness: the life of Jack London's self-alienation of consciousness. This part analyses Jack London's inner awareness of the tragic sense by contradictions of his ideas and beliefs and the kinds of troubles in his life. he believes in the philosophy of Nietzsche's Superman, in addition to believe in Marxism and socialism, which causes his thought is full of contradictions. and follows a variety of troubles in real-life plague: relatives and friends's indifference, "the wolf homes" was burned, the bankruptcy of his own painstaking ideals, there are too many strong sense of tragic consciousness in Jack London's life. In order to highlight awareness of Jack's life better, I insert the comparison to characters, the state of mind and the survival of their situation between Jack London's and Jean-Paul Sartre's characters. Jack London fully demonstrate the attitude not to compromise the reality at all by suicide to end his own life.
Keywords/Search Tags:Jack London, Martin Eden, survival value, life consciousness
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