In Jack London↓ s The Sea-Wolf and The Call of the Wild, the point of London↓ s admiration for everything uncivilized is prominent throughout his novels. London was in love with the ↑ Wolf,↓ and everything it represents. His books leave an impression that anything primitive and innate is better off than that of anything modern; his characters are strong, masculine and recurrent to the point of pleasant prediction.

Atavism thrives in the stories of Jack

strong eat the weak that they may retain their strength. The lucky eat the most and move the longest, that is all↔ (London, Sea 34). The self-dramatizing Nietzsche is also quite perceptible in The Call of the Wild through the canine battle scenes (Dickey 266). The transcendental idea that dogs use ↑ tactics↓ when fighting is very much Nietzsche, and is obvious in the showdown between Buck and Spitz:

not write because I love the game. I loathe it. I cannot find words to express my disgust. The only reason I write is because I am well paid for my labor...↔ (London,

bereavement, and otherwise inhospitable expressions. A long journey in the icy waters of the far north often beckon the same feelings. London was the first writer to uncover the literary possibilities of adventure in the Alaskan frontier. The ⌙ Yukon [was] a kind of metaphysical arena in which natural selection and the survival of the fittest were enacted unendingly↔ (Dickey 266). Both the harsh seas and the merciless tundra brought out certain characteristics in a man. James Dickey illustrates how George Orwell commented on London↓ s instincts lying ⌙ toward acceptance of a ↑ natural aristocracy↓ of strength, beauty and talent.↔ The ruthless territory London↓ s characters have to face are the perfect background for his fixation on superlatives: ⌙ the strongest,↔ ⌙ the biggest,↔ ⌙ the handsomest,↔ ⌙ the most cunning,↔ ⌙ the fiercest,↔ and ⌙ the most ruthless...there is something in London [that] takes a kind of pleasure in the

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