Abstract

Jack London is one of the most famous novelists of the 20th century in America. His famous short novel The Call of the Wild is one of Jack London’s most-read books around the world. It is more meaningful to study and research this literary work from the perspective of Ecological Ethics to arouse human’s ecological consciousness and advocate human to live harmoniously with nature. This paper is divided into five parts. The first part is a brief introduction about the author, the novel and the study home and abroad. The second part gives a brief introduction about Ecological Ethics. The third part analyzes the ethical relationship between human and animals. It mainly talks about the unbalanced relationship and the harmonious relationship between Buck and its owners. The fourth part talks about the ethical relationship between human and nature. It focuses on human’s influence to nature and nature’s revenge on human, and advocates human beings to build up a harmonious ecological environment. The final part is the conclusion. It calls for human beings’ returning to nature, and advocates a harmonious relationship between human and nature.

    Key words: Jack London; The Call of the Wild; Ecological Ethics

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1 Introduction1

2 Ecological Ethics2

3 Ethical relationship between human and animals4

   3.1 Unbalanced relationship. 4

   3.2 Harmonious relationship5

4 Ethical relationship between human and nature7

   4.1 Human’s influence on nature7

   4.2 Nature’s revenge on human.8

   4.3 Harmonious ecological environment9

5 Conclusion10

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