Dec 26, 2009

White Fang | Themes and Characters

White Fang, part wolf and part husky, inherits capacities for primitive and for civilized life; but his character is shaped by the environment in which he lives. Born in the wild, White Fang becomes a cunning predator, well-adapted to a world of eat or be eaten. But not until he is captured and sold to the brutal Beauty Smith does White Fang become cruel and hateful. White Fang adapts to the spitefulness of his new master by turning vicious. Under Smith's fiendish goading, White Fang becomes "a more ferocious thing than had been intended by Nature." Likewise, Beauty Smith and Jim Hall,...