The Sea-Wolf | Social Concerns
At the age of seventeen, Jack London shipped out on a seven-month voyage aboard the sealing schooner Sophia Sutherland. Out of this experience, London created The Sea-Wolf, a powerful, symbolic novel of action and ideas in which he examines the class structure of American society, the conflict between materialism and idealism, the effective social limits of Nietzschean philosophy, and the function of the artist.
London remembered the hardships of his own years as a laborer, and the schooner Ghost is a microcosm of American industrialized society, a place in...
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