The Primeval Canines

What Jack London’s Personification of Animals Suggests About Our Instincts

Thomas Molnar-Brock

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White Fang looks out at the reader
Photo by Steve from Pexels

In many of his novels, Jack London gives animals — wolves and dogs — compelling personalities and human-like feelings. This perspective makes us see how similar all forms of life are. In White Fang and The Call of the Wild, London weaves two engaging narratives that are in a way opposites. The…

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