Symbolism In The Call Of The Wild

the law of tooth and fang both pays and extracts its fee in the merging of the killing of the Indian by the dog-man.

Once in the wild, buck soon successfully defends his life against a pack of wolves; then he knows that he was right to answer the call.(twentieth century literary criticism.vol.39.p.267-271)

London was also a believer in Darwin’s idea about the struggle for existence. Since this survival depends on superior force or guile. London formulated the idea that man’s will was the positive fact upon an individual base his actions. In glorified the will which seems always to exist in a character superior cunning and or power. The primary symbol London uses for the purpose of showing the relationship between strength and the struggle for survival expressed in terms of Darwin’s scientific determinism is the beast. His beasts are depicted both explicit and implicit. Buck, the protagonist in The Call of the Wild, was the most forceful example of the of former.

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Perrault beat him into submission with the club. Buck learned quickly that he avoid the club, Buck was an intelligent dog who fought not only by instinct, but also by his head. He “possessed a quality that made for greatness-imagination.” His imagination helped him not only to survive, but also to adapt.

Buck father was a huge St. Bernard and his mother a Scotch shepherd dog. During the four years he lived at Judge Miller’s estate, he become accustomed to the genteel life. “ But he had saved himself by not becoming a mere pampered house dog. Hunting and kindred outdoor delights had kept down the fat and hardened his muscle; and to him as to the cold-tubbing races, the love of water had been a tonic and a health preserver.” Because Buck was in good physical condition, one aspect of his adaptation to the Yukon territory was made easier; he was capable of doing the work for which he had