Existentialism In Jack London's To Build A Fire

short story written by Jack London depicts a man that begins his journey with only a slight awareness of the weather outside. Since this story takes place in Yukon so he freezes to death walking to a shining camp which is at Henderson Creek, so he can eat his biscuits out of his sweaty shirt and to fill them with greasy bacon. Throughout the story, he embarks on a journey through the hostile environment of the Yukon. London emphasizes the existential theme in “To Build a Fire” in a number of ways

The Existential Theme of London’s “To Build A Fire"           Jack London’s short story, “To Build a Fire,” is the tragic tale of a man who decides to travel alone through the hostile environment of the Yukon in sub-freeing temperatures and falls victim to the unrelenting and unforgiving power of nature. During his journey, the man gets his feet wet as he falls through the ice into the water of a hot spring (London 122). Because of the severity of the cold, some “one hundred and seven degrees

As the title implies, Jack London's 1908 short story contains within its narrative a literal set of sequential directions on how "To Build a Fire." London extends this sequential conceit to his fatidic vision of the universe. Unlike the dog in the story, who can rely on its pure-bred arctic instinct as it navigates through the dangerous tundra, the anonymous man possesses a duller, myopic instinct which is unable foresee the consequentiality of the environment. This instinctual flaw in mankind