The Sea-Wolf | Characters
Humphrey van Weyden and Wolf Larsen of The Sea-Wolf are complementary opposites that allow London to examine extremes of background, behavior, and belief, and their conflict provides the dramatic energy in the novel.
Humphrey van Weyden is a physically incompetent aesthete who suddenly finds himself trapped in a violently competitive world, an environment in which his social standing counts for nothing. Renamed "Hump" and set to work as a cabin boy aboard the Ghost, van Weyden begins his initiation into "the world of the real," a struggle through which he builds a...
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