论《荒野的呼唤》主题的多重性

On the Multiplicity of the Theme in The Call of the Wild

《荒野的呼唤》是二十世纪初美国著名作家杰克·伦敦的第一本最畅销的书,其作者因它而蜚声文坛。该书虽然篇幅不足百页,情节也较简单,却被视为美国文学的一部经典。本文试图通过剖析作品的五大主题———回归自然、强者生存、社会生活的折射、抗争精神和人道主义,以揭示其主题的多重性,从而探寻其长盛不衰的艺术魅力。

The Call of the Wild is the first best seller of Jack London, one of the best novelists in the early twentieth-century America. It was this book that made its author famous in the republic of letters. Although its has less than one hundred pages and a simple plot, it is considered as a classic of American literature. This thesis undertakes an attempt to dissect its five themes--back to nature, the survival of the fittest, the refraction of social life, struggles of the oppressed and humanitarianism so as to disclose the multiplicity of the theme in it, hence to seek its widespread and enduring appeal.