The Primeval Canines
What Jack London’s Personification of Animals Suggests About Our Instincts
4 min readMar 23, 2020
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…