An Analysis Of The Theme Of Returning To Nature In The Call Of The Wild

With the rapid development of society,human beings have gotten much more wealth than before.However,the increase of the material wealth causes more and more people to feel confused.So the returning to human nature and the value of self-identity also attracts more attention among the scholars and becomes their research topic,which is a basis of the thesis topic.Jack London used to be famous as a great writer but had been discarded by critics and scholars for more than ten years after his death.But Jack London attracts attention among the scholars and achieves a rebirth.In his representative work—The Call of the Wild,London chooses a dog as its protagonist and tells a returning story of a civilized dog—Buck.Buck is forced to leave his comfortable life in the southern society and work as a malamute into the primitive in the North where he suffers a lot of torments.At last,after a struggle,Buck finally follows and returns to his primitive life.Wonderful plots,stories which surrounded by cold storm,simple and honest words,fabled characteristic and the coordination of Realism and Romanticism make The Call of the Wild remain charming today.Most important thing is that the value of returning is valuable for people to research.My analysis on the theme of returning is based on Jack London's representative work—The Call of the Wild.It mainly probes the theme of returning to nature reflected from Marx's viewpoints.It refers to returning in nature and value subject.This thesis aims to present its new study value and express the specific charming of The Call of the Wild in order to find its value for guiding real life in modern society especially in a rapidly developed society.How to conquer civilization anxiety and maintain the true,the good and the beautiful in human nature and resetting of human nature are meditative for modern people.This thesis contains three parts including an introduction,a main body and a conclusion.The main contents are as following.The first part is an introduction,which includes literature review of The Call of the Wild and its research situation in China and abroad,purpose and meaning of the thesisand research value.The second part is the main body and it can be divided into three chapters.Chapter One is the theoretical foundation of returning to nature in The Call of the Wild.It mainly discusses the theme of returning to nature based on Marx's theories.The thesis analyzes that how the alienation in social society environment can affect a sense of belonging and returning of subject.When the civilization link is cut,how to keep nature was a meditation.Buck's returning to nature is an appeal for modern people to seek a self-recognition and spiritual home.Chapter Two is the most important part of main body.It is made up of three parts including reasons of returning,process of returning and result of returning.In the first part,it tries to probe social reasons,environmental reasons and genetic reason.In addition to social reasons,natural factors also make his eager for returning clearer.At last,genetic reasons reveal that an eager for returning to the wild just bases on Buck's genetic nature as an animal.A difficult process in part two draws a foreseeing for a happy ending for Buck's returning in The Call of the Wild.It aims to illustrate the physical and mental meaning of Buck's returning.Chapter Three concentrates on artistic expression techniques of the returning to nature in The Call of the Wild.It tries to analyze allegory,symbolism,psychological description and paradox which are used in the novel to illustrate an expression of the theme of returning in literature and present the specific beauty and charming of The Call of the Wild.The last part is a conclusion for the thesis.Its aim is to make a summary from the previous chapters,elucidate opinions of the thesis and illustrate the subject of the thesis.And then,put forward some advice for people in modern society to avoid loss in value and return to nature.