① 请问《野性的呼唤》的概要(英文版)是什么能给人哪些启示有什么象征意
The Gold Rush in the Yukon and Alaska has prompted the need for big, strong dogs who will be able to pull sleds over icy trails. Buck, a large animal living in the home of Judge Miller in Santa Clara, California, is exactly what the explorers want. He is an animal with human-like tendencies, intelligence, strength and dignity. Thus far he has enjoyed his civilized life with the occasional nature stroll or hunting trip. Manuel, a gardener's helper with a penchant for gambling and a need for money, manages to kidnap Buck and sell him on the black market. He is given to a saloon-keeper and transported via train to the Northland. Throughout the ordeal, Buck is kept in a cage and becomes increasingly angry. He manages to badly bite one of his kidnappers. By the time he arrives at his destination, he has worked himself into a rage.
The meeting with the Red Sweater and the painful encounters with his club push Buck into submission. He is not broken, but he knows better than to keep resisting, which can only result in his death. Once he is behaving correctly, Buck, along with Dave and Curly, two other dogs, is sold to Francois and Perrault, two agents of the Canadian government. They must bring the mail between Skaquay and Dawson, Alaska. While in camp, Curly is killed for trying to make friendly advances to another husky. Buck understands that this is the law of club and fang which dominates this new world. He resolves never to go down in that manner.
Buck and Dave join a preexisting dog team led by Spitz, a bullying husky dog. The trail work begins immediately. Buck learns fast from the other dogs. In time he starts to become more wild, losing the domesticity imposed upon him in the Judge's home. Tensions develop between him and Spitz. Buck is ready to be a leader, and looks to usurp Spitz's power. While hunting a rabbit one night, the two end up in a fight to the death. Buck achieves mastery. When Francois attempts to place Sol-lek at the head of the team, Buck refuses to allow it. Even the appearance of a club does not faze him, for he has learned how to avoid it. When Francois allows him to take the position, he is amazed by Buck's abilities. Buck begins to dream of an ancient world in which man and dog fought side by side to survive.
After two round trips between towns, the dogs are exhausted and overworked. Francois and Perrault are very proud of their team, having just set a record for their run. But they receive new orders and must bid the dogs goodby. Several Scottish "half-breeds" take charge of Buck and his other dogs. He does not have strong feelings for them, but they are good men and they care for the dogs. Buck's dreams of the ancient world grow more vivid. The path is very difficult and men and dogs alike are growing weak. One day Dave shows so much pain that one of the men tries to get him to run behind the sled. He refuses so adamantly that the men give in and allow him to run himself out. The next morning they drive the sled away, then one man returns and shoots Dave.
After this last trip, the Scottish men are told to sell the dogs and buy fresher ones. The team is sold to a group of tenderfoots -- Hal, Charles, and Mercedes -- looking to strike it rich. They have no idea how to work with a dog team. In Hal's eagerness to complete the trail, he terribly mistreats the dogs. His quiet brother-in-law Charles and weepy sister Mercedes only increase the difficulty. Hal's incompetent handling of the rations leads them to run out of food for the dogs half-way through the trip. Starving and overworked, one by one the dogs start to die. The remnants pull into the camp of John Thornton. Buck refuses to rise when Hal wants to leave. After watching the cruel young man beat Buck repeatedly, John steps in and saves him by cutting him out of the harness. The rest of the team continues. Only a quarter-away, the sled falls through the ice, thinned by the sun, and dogs and humans perish together.
Buck falls wildly in love with John Thornton, who immediately recognizes that Buck is one of a kind. Under John's influence, comforted by his two other dogs Skeet and Nig, Buck begins to heal. He accomplishes a number of miraculous things for John, saving his life twice and winning a bet that allows him to pay off all his debts. He does not forget his visions of the primitive world, but he is happy at John's side. Along with Hans and Pete, John's partners, the dogs go on an expedition for a lost mine. The work on the trail, the daily hunting, are absolutely delightful for Buck. Though they don't find the mind, they do find gold, and so there is no more work for the dogs to do. Buck ruminates once more on the call that he hears nightly in the forest.
Eventually he starts to sleep away from the camp. He embraces his instincts and wild tendencies, killing his own food and watching out for himself. Buck meets a wolf who befriends him and is quite sad when he returns to the camp. This pattern continues, until one day Buck returns to the camp to find everyone killed by the Yeehats, a Native American tribe. He flies into a rage at the death of beloved John, and kills all the men who do not run away from him. There is no more tie to mankind, so Buck returns to the forest and remains with a pack of wolves. Each year he visits to the valley where John Thornton died, mourning his lost, dearest friend.
Analysis of Major Characters
Buck
Although The Call of the Wild is told from the perspective of an anonymous third-person narrator, the events that are recounted are those that the dog Buck experiences directly. As such, it is not unreasonable to call him the only fully developed character in the story. He is the only character whose past we know anything about, and London is careful to emphasize the human qualities of his protagonist, enabling us to empathize with the animal. Filtered through the third-person omniscience of the narrator, Buck comes across as far more than a creature of instinct, since he has a sense of wonder, shame, and justice. He also possesses a capacity for mystical experiences and for great, unselfish love, as his relationship to Thornton amply demonstrates. He may be a dog, but he is more human than many of the people around him.
Buck’s story is cyclical: he is introced as a pampered prince, and the story concludes with Buck as a veritable king of beasts. In between, Buck undergoes experiences that provide him with greater insight about the world. Buck begins as a spoiled regent, strutting proudly over his soft, sun-kissed domain, but he abruptly sees everything taken away from him. He is reced to nothing, beaten and kicked and forced to pull sleds through the Canadian wilderness. This experience, though, far from destroying him, makes him stronger, and he wins back his kingdom—or rather, he wins a new kingdom, a wild one that better suits his true destiny as a wild animal. The Call of the Wild is, as its title suggests, a celebration of wildness, of primitive life, and even of savagery. Buck’s rise to greatness is not an easy path; it is a struggle, a course strewn with obstacles, from the long el with his rival Spitz to the folly of Hal, Mercedes, and Charles. But these obstacles, London indicates, are to be rejoiced in rather than avoided: life is ultimately a long struggle for mastery, and the greatest dogs (or men), the Bucks of the world, will always seek out struggles in order to prove their greatness. Thus, when Buck goes from being a moral, civilized pet to a fierce, bloodthirsty, violent wolf-dog, we are glad rather than shocked, because we know that he is fulfilling his highest -possible destiny.
John Thornton
The Call of the Wild is, first and foremost, the story of Buck’s graal transformation from a tame beast into a wild animal. But even as the novel celebrates the life of a wild creature, it presents us with the character of John Thornton, whose connection to Buck suggests that there may be something good and natural in the human-dog relationship, despite its flaws. Thornton, a seasoned gold prospector, saves Buck from being beaten to death by the odious Hal and then becomes Buck’s master. From then on, a deep and abiding love blossoms between man and dog. Their relationship is a reciprocal one—Thornton saves Buck, and Buck later saves Thornton from drowning in a river. It is clear that Buck is more of a partner than a servant to the prospector. This mutual respect, we are assured, is characteristic of all Thornton’s relationships to dogs—every one of his animals bears an abiding love for him, which is returned in kind. Even as Buck is increasingly drawn to a life away from humanity, a life in the wild, his affection for Thornton keeps him from making the final break. Indeed, so strong is their bond that it is broken only when Thornton dies, and even then Buck makes an annual pilgrimage to his last master’s final resting place.
Buck is prone to visions of more primitive worlds, and sometimes he sees the humans around him as ancient men, wearing animal skins and living in caves or trees. In some of these visions, he is -running alongside these men, protecting them from the terrors of the night. His relationship to Thornton, the novel implies, is like these ancient man-dog connections; it is primitive rather than civilized, and so it remains strong even as Buck leaves the civilized world behind.
Hal, Charles, and Mercedes
These three can be analyzed in a group, because London never develops them beyond our initial impressions of them, which are strikingly similar: Hal and Charles are foolish and callow; Mercedes is spoiled and sentimental. Taken together, the trio serves as a vehicle through which London attacks the debilitating effects of human civilization and warns of how little use such civilization is in the wild. From their first appearance, Hal, Charles, and Mercedes are woefully out of place in the untamed North. Both Hal and Charles display “a callowness sheer and unutterable,” while Mercedes is spoiled and unreasonable—“it was her custom to be helpless,” London notes. As a group, the three have no experience in the wild, and, thus, they make mistake after mistake, overpacking the sled, allowing Mercedes to ride instead of walking, and miscalculating how much food they need for the journey to Dawson. When their mistakes become apparent, instead of taking action, they begin bickering and feuding, fighting over old grudges and trifles rather than dealing with the problems at hand.
The civilized world tolerates and even smiles on such absurdity, London suggests, but the wild has no such mercy. In the cold of the Klondike, incompetence is deadly, not only for the three foolish Americans but also for the team of dogs, for the humans’ poor planning has brought them to the brink of starvation. Hal, Charles, and Mercedes are weak and foolish figures, and their folly has its own reward—death in the icy waters of a northern river.
② the call of the wild 野性的呼唤的主要内容(英语)
杰克·伦敦(1876-1916),美国著名作家。主要作品有:《狼的孩子》、《野性的呼唤》、《白牙》等19部中长篇小说和《热爱生命》、《猎熊的孩子》等150余篇短篇小说。尤其以动物小说引人注目,笔力雄健,气势恢弘,充满着生命的抗争,深受到全世界少年儿童的广泛喜爱,被译成近70种文字,在世界文坛上享有盛誉。 《野性的呼唤》是杰克·伦敦的代表作之一。在美国,不仅被许多学校指定为课外必读书,还被改编成电影,家喻户晓,被誉为世界动物小说的奠基之作。小说的主人公巴克是一条血统优良的狗,性格文雅温顺,自幼生长在南方,过着悠闲舒适的生活。自从有一天,它被人偷偷买掉后,生活、性格都发生了巨大的变化……小说生动地叙述了巴克被买到北方后,怎样适应残酷的现实,成为一只最著名的雪橇狗,最后它又怎样变成一条狼……小说自始至终洋溢着一种热爱生活、努力生存、坚忍不拔、勇往直前的精神,蕴涵着深刻的人生体验和深厚的社会文化内涵。
此书主要讲述一条狗——“巴克”的故事,但它却远远超越了一般的动物故事。杰克·伦敦曾提醒读者:“这是个动物故事,但在主题和处理上都和其他非常成功的动物故事不同”。本书是一个含义深刻的现代寓言。这个故事从多个层面,展示了小说主题的多义性,并折射了作家所信仰的多种哲学和社会观,其中包括马克思主义、达尔文进化论、斯宾塞的社会达尔文主义以及尼采的超人哲学。
《野性的呼唤》是最受读者青睐的动物小说之一,被称为“世界上读者最多的美国小说”。在小说出版的当天,1000册即宣布告罄,此后半个世纪在美国和世界各地售出近2000万册。这部小说语言易读易懂,集动物故事、探索故事、寓言故事和神秘故事于一身,给人有激励和勇气,适合各年龄层次、具有不同审美情趣的读者。
③ 《野性的呼唤》中英文翻译。
具体如下:
The call of the wild, also known as the call of the wild, is a novella created by American writer Jack London.
The work tells that Buck was originally a dog of judge Miller's family. After civilization, he has been living in a warm valley in Southern California. Later, he was sold to Alaska, which is cold and remote in the north of the United States and rich in gold. He became a sled dog.
The work shows that dogs in the civilized world return to barbarism under the pressure of their owners through the experience of a dog. It writes about dogs and reflects the human world.
The novel continues the theme of "survival" in Jack London's Novels: life always obtains meaning and power in the process of constantly struggling for survival.
翻译:
《野性的呼唤》,又名《荒野的呼唤》(The Call of the Wild),是美国作家杰克·伦敦创作的中篇小说。
作品讲述巴克原是米勒法官家的一只爱犬,经过了文明的教化,一直生活在美国南部加州一个温暖的山谷里。后被卖到美国北部寒冷偏远、盛产黄金的阿拉斯加,成了一只拉雪橇的狗。
该作以一只狗的经历表现文明世界的狗在主人的逼迫下回到野蛮,写的是狗,也反映人的世界。
该作延续了杰克·伦敦小说的“生存”主题:生命总是在不断挣扎求存的过程中获得意义与力量。
④ The Call of the Wild,野性的呼唤小
“野性的呼唤”是1903年杰克·伦敦发表的短篇小说“冒险小说”。小说的核心特征是名叫巴克的狗。这个故事开始在加利福尼亚州圣克拉拉谷的一个农场,当时巴克从家中被人偷走,并卖到阿拉斯加。之后,他在恶劣的环境中逐渐野蛮,在那里他被迫去争取生存和统治其他狗。再后来,巴克喜欢的新主人桑顿被人杀害,它为他报仇后便加入了狼群。
"The Call of the Wild" is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California. When Buck is stolen from his home and sold in Alaska. He becomes progressively feral in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs. Then, after his new master Thornton was killed, he revenged for him, and then join the wolves group.
⑤ 野性的呼唤 (The Call Of Wild)
《The call of the wild》
It’s a book about a dog’s life. Buck who is very strong, clever and tameless is the leading actor of the book. Buck’s first owner was Judge Miller. He liked his owner every much. But one day, his life changed. Manuel who is a gardener kidnapped Buck. He took Buck to the north. Buck became a sled dog. The bad weather, the terrible Husky dogs, the fights, his dead friend and many things made Buck knew he was surrounded by savages. There was no fair play. Only fight and war can help him. Finally, he had begun to master his new surroundings. His ability to rule and his great intelligence and good judgment were wonders to everyone. And he often listened some special voice of the wild. Then, Buck was sold once more. He had two stupid owners. And then John Thornton rescued Buck, and became Buck’s new owner. Everything liked the best for Buck. But life was hard for Buck. When they lived in a forest, the Yeehats, an Indian tribe killed all the people, include John. Buck was very angry, he killed most of the Yeehats. He was very proud of himself, because he killed people, and people were game forbidden to all the wild animals. John was dead. Buck’s last tie with people was broken. Finally, he was ready to answer the call of the wild. He ran with wolves, side by side with his wild brothers, shouted as he ran. Sometimes, he raised his great head, and with the wolves, he sounded the call of the wild.
That’s the most wonderful voice and future for Buck. I think.
More and more ruthless true, makes Buck’s world has no goodness and kindness. There only has one easy rule: dead or kill; eat or eat off. That’s too easy, and makes fight and war like breath——natural and important. It doesn’t have right or wrong. Only has live or dead. Buck is only a dog, but Jack London gives him a person’s heart. And also gives the story people’s society. In fact, we are the same as them. In our life, many people work hard, try to change and master them. From Buck and Jack, we can see and know, what is wonderful life and true life.
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这是一本书关于狗的生活。 是非常强, 聪明和tameless 的大型装配架是书的主角。 顽抗了第一个所有者是法官米勒。 他喜欢他的所有者每。 但一天, 他的生活改变了。 是花匠的Manuel 绑架了大型装配架。 他采取了大型装配架对北部。 大型装配架变成拉雪橇狗。 恶劣天气、可怕的多壳的狗、战斗、他死的朋友和许多事被做大型装配架知道他由野人围拢了。 没有公平比赛。 唯一战斗和战争可能帮助他。 终于, 他开始掌握他的新周围。 他的能力统治和他伟大的智力和好评断是奇迹对大家。 并且他经常听了某一特别声音狂放。 然后, 大型装配架更加被卖了得。 他有二个愚笨的所有者。 并且约翰·Thornton 然后抢救了大型装配架, 和变成大型装配架的新所有者。 一切喜欢最佳为大型装配架。 但生活是坚硬的为大型装配架。 当他们居住在森林里, Yeehats, 印第安部落杀害了所有人民, 包括约翰。 大型装配架非常恼怒, 他杀害了大多数Yeehats 。 他为他自己是非常骄傲的, 因为他杀害了人, 并且人们是游戏被禁止对所有野生动物。 约翰是死的。 大型装配架的前条领带与人是残破的。 终于, 他准备好回复电话狂放。 他跑了与狼, 肩并肩与他的野生兄弟, 呼喊当他跑了。 有时, 他培养了他的巨大头, 并且与狼, 他听起来电话狂放。
那是最美妙的声音和未来为大型装配架。 我认为。
越来越冷酷真实, 牌子大型装配架的世界没有善良和仁慈。 那里只有一个容易的规则: 死或杀害; 吃或吃。 那太容易, 并且牌子战斗和战争象呼吸-- 自然和重要。 它没有权利或错误。 只有活或死者。 大型装配架是唯一狗, 但杰克·伦敦给他人的心脏。 并且并且给故事人民的社会。 实际上, 我们是同他们一样。 在我们的生活中, 许多人艰苦服务, 设法改变和掌握他们。 从大型装配架和杰克, 我们能看和知道, 什么是美妙的生活和真实的生活。