An Essay On Jack London's Life Consciousness From Northern Tales

Jack London(1876-1916) ,who is in pursuit of adventure and unique life experiences, understands society ,life and nature in a special way, is the most important American writer at the beginning of the 20th century. His life experiences are rough and legendary and his creative materials are extensive. Writers at home and abroad studied his writings in details from different points of view. His northern series tales explain his understanding towards life consciousness and emphasize the immense life energy when the human beings face the harsh nature. According to the version, this article discuss Jack London's life consciousness from his views of life and nature, understandings of respect and love, self and nature. It mainly includes the following aspects:First, life consciousness in"northern tales"Jack London's understanding towards life is special. He emphasizes that man should respect the order and then complete his respect towards life itself. Nature and human sociaty has their own rules of running, which adjust the relationship of man and nature. Human's respect to the order is in pursuit of the highest life quality. In"northern tales", Jack London pays more attention to the death of human. As human beings face the death calmly in the extremely cruel surounding, they get the final dignity .That is the obedience to the naturality of human itself and the dignity to the order of nature. Meanwhile, the result of human civilization development sets up the order of human society which Moral and legel consciousness of human maintain. Even from the natural environment in the polar groups, people's respect to the law also protect the highest interests of themselves, that is , safeguard the dignity of human life.Second, love sacrifice and life meaningJack London's "northern tales" interpretes that the need for love is the basic life need of energy. Love satisfaction makes the meaning of life is more abundant, the person's life feeling more comprehensive, life quality more optimized. Love satisfaction can change a person's view to themselves and the world. Therefore, giving up life to get love is not only the most emotional experience of life, but special evaluation to the life quality.Third, respecting nature is respecting life The works in Jack London's "northern tales" often place man and nature in two poles. Either people conquered nature with their own power and life energy unprecedentedly expanded, or thoroughly surrender to nature and destroyed by nature, in complete negation of man and nature .Therefore, in the competition of man and nature, the nature and survival outlook express in "northern tales" is often contradictory, which is Jack London's objective understanding for life.Fourth, confronting haggard natureJack London's "northern tales" describes the wide arctic snowland and the people live on it. In his writings, Indians or forty-niner in long-term harsh natural environment showed the tendency of "nature" and "haggard" nature made man wild. The struggle of Man and nature is often the struggle of "haggard" . People tend to rely on survival "haggard", comparative man city culture background, on the snowland where the material and culture is almost blank, the person and nature reached unprecedented.So, "northern tales" expresses Jack London `s objective and rational life and nature and explains Jack London's unique "life consciousness".