Call Of The Wild Character Analysis

    The idea that "The Fall of the House of Usher" is in part an investigation into sexual motivation and sexual guilt complexes has often been hinted at but never critically pursued as the dominant theme in the tale. But such a reading is at least prepared for in important essays by D. H. Lawrence and Allen Tate which make the essential recognition that "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a "love" story (1). Lawrence and Tate, however, mistakenly attempt to purge the love concerned of all physical meaning. What they see Usher wanting is possession not of Madeline's body but her very being (Lawrence, p. 86). Theirs is essentially an anti-biological reading of the tale in which

The primordial beast calls with great force over mind and body from within the soul. Throughout the story, but mostly towards the end, the primordial beast, which is Buck’s natural instincts inside him from his ancestors, begins to surface in Buck. Buck is taken to a place where his ancestors would live and he begins to live more and more like a wild dog, like his ancestors. He learned the ways of the wild, and by the end of the book Buck has gone from a peaceful and friendly domestic dog to a wild animal who leaves his life with humans and goes out into the forest to live with a pack of wolves. For “the call” beckons Buck to live like his ancestors.

       Buck wasn't always considered such a leader. Getting to that leading spot wasn't always so easy, but yet it came to Buck like a second nature. I like to think Buck was born with a leadership trait and it shows in many ways throughout this book. Whether it was fighting for the top spot or even just knowing what was right for his fellow mates and treating them just right. He had to be brave and strong yet very clever. He was a big help and a blessing to many  people and also even dogs. Buck knew what wanted in his life and that was to be a leader in addition to that he'd do anything to get to that spot.

The theme power of the primitive is clearly supported by the quote about Buck daydreaming about an ancient man. This quote is showing that Buck is retrogressing because he is seeing his ancestors, a caveman. This caveman is representing the aged past, the return to a more primitive way of

Although Thornton's death would bring major sadness to Buck, it was the best thing for him. Buck never liked living within man, throughout the novel, he constantly hears the call for

Buck went through many different struggles throughout the book, Call of the Wild. For example, he was repeatedly abused by almost all of his owners. The man in the red sweater, would beat him with clubs. This made Buck feel weaker,

The relations between Buck and the human he encounters are marked not surprisingly, by opposing forces, actions, roles or values: love and hate, master and slave, uneasy truce and open war, hunter and victim. Buck enters the story in his sustaining California environment as ruler of all he surveys: he was “king, -king over all creeping, crawling flying things of Judge Miller’s place, humans included.” Taken out of that happy valley, he was starved and mistreated by his captors and then subdued by the brutal club of a shrewd, red-sweated man. The man conquers Buck and Buck hates him; yet the beating brings with it the curiously ambiguous relation between master and slave: “When the man brought him water he drank eagerly, and later bolted a generous meal of raw meat, chunk by chunk from the man’s hand.” Buck’s understanding of human beings will henceforth be defined by power and the politic dispensing of the necessities of life.

He says, “ What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.” (pg. 8)

We are all born into this world, never knowing what life has in store for us. It’s a journey that we are all not accustomed to, some of us grasp onto life and use its full potential, as others take the high road and use life as a chance of self exploration. The novel, Into the Wild, portrays a college graduate and successful homebody, Jonathan McCandless, taking a life’s journey that not even his parents expected. This character analysis will showcase how even in life, when one was given everything, we all have a choice to make our own path in life. The character analysis will also shine light on McCandless psyche, home life and the psychological theory to the why, behind his self exploration.

He struggles against the want to run wild and hunt things for not wanting to abandon others who depend on him. The closer to the end of the book, the more he has to fight himself. While with every creature he kills he wishes to run off more, he loves Thornton and wants to protect him and therefore refuses to leave him. The quote “He had a way of taking Buck's head roughly between his hands, and resting his own head upon Buck's, of shaking him back and forth, the while calling him ill names that to Buck were love names. Buck knew no greater joy than that rough embrace and the sound of murmured oaths,” from chapter six describes the love Buck and Thornton had for each other and therefore the loyalty to each other. Buck resists his own feelings for the benefit of others around him.

The Call of the Wild, on the surface, is a story about Buck, a four- year old dog that is part Shepherd and part St. Bernard. More importantly, it is a naturalistic tale about the survival of the fittest in nature. Throughout the novel, Buck proves that he is fit and can endure the law of the club, the law of the fang, and the laws of nature.

Jack London brings a natural instinct into the spotlight by defining that everyone has that primal call to the wild, and often one feels this when in a difficult situation. Giving into this ‘call of the wild’ leads to a different kind of adaptation, it makes you become primal to survive in a primal situation. Further into the book it states, “The others sat down and howled. And now the call came to Buck in unmistakable accents. He, too, sad down and howled.” (London, 1990, p.62). This is the defining moment of Jack’s book when Buck lets go of all ties to humans and decides to carve his own path, adapting the way he needs to, not the way that humans encouraged him. Soon, Buck changes himself completely to fit snugly into the environment and to prevent further torturous struggles with humans. These quotes combine to paint a picture of total and complete change when it comes to a new and unfavorable environment.

     After all that he had been through, one would hardly suppose that Buck could love a person. However, love he can and love he does. He loves John almost more than is possible; once, as a joke, John commanded Buck to “Jump!” over a cliff. A second later, he was struggling with Buck at the very edge of the precipice. They could happily live together for the rest of their lives...if it weren’t for “the call”.

This feminist study will define the commodity fetishism of the slender female body within the social relationships of patriarchal capitalism and sales marketing. In American society, the female body has a history of being exploited through patriarchal interpretations of the slender body as part of capitalist commoditization. In this manner, unrealistic expectations of the female body are enhanced in various advertisements, which show artificially photoshopped slender bodies. These distorted images show a patriarchal preference for women’s bodies that define the subjective market value imposed through marketing schemes to sell weightless products. Two advertisements showing this type of commodity fetishism will be defined through the marketing advertisements of patriarchal corporate enterprises. A Marxist evaluation of the marketing of the slender body will define these subjective social relationships that alienate women in the patriarchal commoditization of the slender female body for marketing purposes.

Have you ever had a time in your life that changed you completely? Well, I have, and I’m going to give you some information on how my daily life had changed and how it completely changed my life. And that thing that had changed me the most in my life would have to be dance.