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1、分析小说野性的呼唤中象征手法的运用The Analysis of the Symbolic Device of The Novel The Call of the WildContentsAbstract.1Key words.1I. Introduction.2II. Literature review.31. Different views.32. Criticism.4III. The Style of This Novel.41. Point of View.42. Setting.43. Naturalism.5IV. Symbolism in The Call of the Wil
2、d .51. The special natural and social environment.62. Civilization vs. the wild.73. Major characterBuck.7V. The Desire for Humanity in The Call of the Wild.8 1. Bucks attitude and behavior towards its master with the way the master treat Buck.82. Bucks response to John Thorntons death.11VI. Conclusi
3、on.11References.12The Analysis of the Symbolic Device of the NovelThe Call of the WildAbstract: The Call of the Wild was one of the most excellent works of American famous writer, Jack London. The persona of this novel was a dog named Bark. During cruel domesticated courses, it cognized the equitabl
4、e and natural laws；the execrable survival environment let him understand Jesuitism and cheating, afterward itself exerted Jesuitism and cheating to an incomparable level；the cruel and life-and-death struggle experience let Bark learn how to protect itself, and how to stand at an incincible position
5、in drastic competitions. Finally it determined its status of a leading dog. After then, Bark had not attaching to human society and made for wilderness responding to the call of the wild which it had listened for many times and urgently yearned. The lonely Bark said “goodbye” to human beings and joi
6、ned the wolf family. The intention of this study is to describe the analysis of the symbolic device of the novel The Call of the Wild and discuss the major character of it. The author analyses factors such as how to use the symbolism in the novel, the style of this novel and it topic tracking and so
7、 on in order to help reader to understand this novel Key words: Buck；The Call of the Wild；symbolic significance；the wild摘要：野性的呼唤是美国著名作家杰克伦敦最优秀的作品之一。小说的主人公是一条狗，名叫巴克。整个故事以阿拉斯加淘金热为背景，讲述了在北方险恶的环境下，巴克为了生存，如何从一条驯化的南方狗退化到似狗非狗、似狼非狼的野蛮状态的过程。在残酷的驯服过程中，它意识到了公正与自然的法则；恶劣的生存环境让它懂得了狡猾与欺诈，后来它自己将狡猾与欺诈发挥到了让人望尘莫及的地步；经
8、过残酷的、你死我活的斗争，使巴克学到了如何保护自己，如何在激烈的竞争上处于不败之地。它最后终于确立了领头狗的地位。巴克对人类社会已无所依恋，从此它便走向了荒野，响应它这一路上多次聆听到的、非常向往的那种野性的呼唤。孤独的巴克告别了人类，加入到狼群的行列。本文作者在文中简要描述了小说野性的呼唤中象征手法的运用，及其对主人公巴克的描写。作者从以下几点分析了小说，例如：在小说中象征手法的运用、小说的写作风格、及文章的线索等等，旨在帮助读者更好的理解这篇小说。关键词：巴克;荒野的呼唤;象征意蕴;野性I. IntroductionOne of Americas most prolific and bel
9、oved authors, London was born in 1876 in San Francisco, California. His family was so poor that he went to work as soon as he finished grade school. His early experiences working in a saloon and a factory, hunting seals, tramping on the railroads, and spending thirty days in prison for vagrancy prov
10、ided London a wealth of material for his gritty, naturalistic fiction.In 1894 London completed high school, attended the University of California at Berkeley for one semester, and joined the Socialist Party. He immersed himself in the writings of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and H
11、erbert Spencer. He was intrigued by socialism and Darwins concept of the survival of the fittest, two ideas that would influence his later writings.In 1897, frustrated with his unsuccessful attempts at starting a literary career, he went with his brother-in-law to the Klondike, in the Yukon territor
12、y of Canada. The gold rush in the Klondike was underway, and London hoped to strike it rich. Although he did not discover any gold, he did find subject matter for his fiction. His experiences in the frozen Northland inspired his first stories, which appeared in the nations leading periodicals. Londo
13、ns fiction was very popular with the public; his stories were new and exciting and very different from the tales of romance that flooded the market during that time.The most popular book to come out of his Alaskan experiences was The Call of the Wild (1903), the story of a dogs difficult transition
14、from the warm, comfortable Southland to the wild, treacherous Northland. Many scholars find autobiographical elements in this novel, in particular Londons exciting and dangerous adventures in the Klondike and his short stint in prison. Just as Buck has to learn to accept the law of the club and the law of the fang, London learned how to survive in prison. The novel was one of Londons greatest critical and commercial successes.
