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Outline• Life Story a. occupation b. main experiences c. two marriages d. death e. business f. political view • Works Martin Eden• Famous remark
Part 1 Life Story
SpyJournalist
Jack London (John Griffith London ) 1876-1916
1.1Main Occupation:
Novelist
Journalist
Essayist.
Short story writer
American
His life /the power of will successful writer/ in
America /the early 20th Century /a pioneer /in the burge
oning world of commercial magazine fiction/
first fiction writers to obtain worldwide
celebrity /a large fortune
Achievements:
• Born /San Francisco /January 12, 1876/ an illegitimate son.
• Before 10: Work / study• 13: a cannery• 15: captain /an oyster-pirate( 蚝贼 ) boat• 17: venture /on a sealing ship• 19:high school Quickly completing high school education in
Oakland High School ( self-educated)• 20:A special student /the University of
California /one semester.• Joined /great Klondike gold rush• Joined Socialist Labor Party/ both Marxism /
Nietzsche / Darwinism. • Died /November 22, 1916
1.2Main experiences
1.3Marriages
• First marriage (1900–1904)
Jack with daughters "Becky" (left) and Joan (right)
Bessie Maddern London and daughters, Joan and Becky.
In London/ Elizabeth Bessie Maddern /April 7, 1900 / two daughters/divorced in
1904.
Marriages
• Second marriage (1905-1916)
Charmian Kittredge
/in 1905 / no child
1.4 The death
• on November 22, 1916
/ a sleeping porch /a cottage /his ranch
/many older sources/his death as a suicide
/uremia([juəlri:miə], 尿毒症 )
/in extreme pain and taking
morphine (吗啡)
Grave of Jack London
1.5 Business
• great passion /agriculture/well on the way of creating a new model /ranching through his Beauty Ranch
1.5.1 Beauty Ranch (1905–1916)
• 1,000 acre (4 km²) ranch in Glen Ellen Sonoma County, California
The old Winery Cottage, where London died (in the left sleeping porch) on November 22, 1916
1.5.2 Snark
The Snark in Australia, 1921
1.5.3Wolf House
• Spent three years• Cost more than 80 thousand dollars• Burt at 2 am the second day after it was
completed in Aug.1913
1.6 Political view
joined the Socialist Labor Party /April 1896 /Acclaimed withdrawing/estrangements with other socialists
Part 2
works
2.1 Works an assiduous and prolific writer / kept
writing/ at lest 1000words everyday / writing
career /less than 20 years /produced a large
amount Novelettes 19 Short Stories 150 Plays 3 Reportages , Essays and Theses 47Total :9million words
Works & Three Periods• Before 1900 : To the Man on Trail 《为赶路的人干杯 》
• The Odyssey of the North 《北方的奥德赛》 1899• 1900—1910 :“ North Story” The Son of the Wolf 《狼之
子》 The Iron Heel 《铁蹄》 1908 The Sea-wolf 《海狼》 1904 Martin Eden 《马丁 . 伊登》 1909
Burning Daylight 《天大亮》 1910(turning point)
• After 1910 : “Pacific short story ” The House of Mapuhi 《 马普希的房子》 1911
“ Social problem novel”The Mexican 《墨西哥人》 1913
Other Major Novels
• The Call of the Wild 《野性的呼唤》 1903• The People of the Abyss 《深渊中的人
们》 1903• White Fang 《白牙》 1906• Love of Life 《热爱生命》 1906• How I become a Socialist 《我怎样成为社会党
人》• The War of the Classes 《阶级之间的战争》• What Life Means to Me 《生命对我意味着什
么》• Revolution 《革命》• Under the Deck Awnings 《在甲板的天蓬下》• White Wolf 《白狼》
White Fang
The sea-wolf
The Call of the Wild
In 1903 he wrote “The Call of the Wild”, an all-time best seller. This book made him immediately popular, and his name was soon known all over the county
Martin Eden
Love of Life
2.2 Writing Style
• Forceful and colorful• Subjectivity /enthusiasm• Naturalism /Romanticism• Limitations: formless/ clumsy /vigorous
style/stiff / stereotyped characters /dialogues• considered as “Father of American Proletarian
Literature”
2.3 2.3 Martin Eden
Major characters
Summary
Themes
2.3.1 2.3.1 Main characters
• Martin Eden
• Ruth Morse
• Lizzie Connolly
• Russ Brissenden
• in Oakland/ in the bottom of
• society of 20th century
• an impoverished sailor
/pursues, obsessively and
aggressively /dreams of
education and literary fame.
2.3.2 Summary
• As education progresses/
/increasingly distanced from his
working class background and
surroundings.
• the main driving force: – his love for Ruth Morse
• Martin Eden: – a rough, uneducated sailor from a
working class background
• the Morse: – a bourgeois family
• The literary establishment
doesn’t discover Eden’s
talents as a writer.
• The publishers and the
bourgeois are finally at his
feet .
• The novel ends with Eden
committing suicide by
drowning
– a detail which undoubtedly
contributed to what researchers
call the 'biographical myth' that
London's own death was a
suicide.
2.4 Themes
• Social Class
• Socialism
• Individualism
• Love
• Disillusionment
• Suicide
• Success
• American
dreams
• Hypocrisy
• Vanity
• Martin Eden
– rejects socialism (attacking it
as ‘slave morality’)
– relies on a Nietzschean
individualism
– then attacks individualism
Individualism VS Socialism
Although Jack London was a socialist, he
invested the semi-autobiographical character
of Martin Eden with a strong individualism.
Part 3 Jack’s famous remark
• Youth is always young and elderly will only grow old. 青年总是年青的,只有老年才会变老。
• The only way to get smart is to buy with the youth . 得到智慧的惟一办法,就是用青春去买。
“ I would rather be ashes than dust! 我宁愿化作灰烬,也不要做尘埃。I would rather be a superb meteor,every atom of me in magnificent glow,than a sleepy and permanent planet.我愿做一颗华丽的流星,愿我的每一颗粒都呈现那动人的光辉,而不做那沉睡并永远不灭的行星。The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”人的恰当功能是活,而不是生。我不会用延长日子,把时光浪费,我要利用时间。