On Jack London Wasteland Consciousness In The Northern Novel

Jack London's Northern novel contains unique content “Wasteland”consciousness.This “wasteland”consciousness in spirit level,it is a kind of ideas that symbol of nature are not civilized pollution for people in moral purification and spiritual salvation,Industrial civilization resulted in some people's physical and mental gradually weakenning.eventually lose the vitality of life.Thus,the writer “with” the way of wallows in the wilderness,seek treatment to repair the national spirit that is lost in the process of civilization.In the real wilderness scene,this “Wasteland” consciousness make the writer in writing to show the face of the wilderness of human loneliness and small and desolate and cold of the cold and desolate.At the same time,also make it brings some heroes in the novel.They can in the lonely and small have strong life and also can be in the deserted and desolate get beyond the spirit of the strong,tell from this meaning,the Northern Wilderness seems to be an ideal home for the human spirit.Whether Western literature or American literature,cultural wasteland of writing already exists,Jack London's Northern novel of “Wasteland”consciousness not only from the wilderness of Western literature and cultural traditions,but also by the American wilderness and cultural critique of industrial wasteland in love civilization,anthropocentrism impact.In addition,this “Wasteland” consciousness also comes from the writer's unique life experience,once witnessed bitter tramps and trip in the Klondike gold rush are the escape civilization,regression wilderness of thought have a great impact.Through “Wasteland”consciousness,we can find it is through Jack London novels in order to achieve self satisfaction and healing obtain spiritual purification and sublimation in the regression wilderness,this approach implies the writer of the industrial society reflection and salvation consciousness.Jack London for American ancestors settled formed during the period of the national spirit of vigilance,as well as the quality of modern industrial civilization in profound thinking,has important value and significance of modern human being.