《野性的呼唤》生态伦理解析_英语论文

On Ecological Ethics in The Call of the Wild

摘要

杰克·伦敦是美国20世纪著名的小说家，其著名的短篇小说《野性的呼唤》在全世界广泛传阅。用生态伦理学的视角对该文学作品进行研究和解读能唤醒人们的生态意识，对人与自然和谐相处更具有社会意义。本篇论文分成五部分，第一部分对作者、小说以及国内外研究综述进行简单的介绍。第二部分介绍了生态伦理学。第三部分主要研究和分析了《野性的呼唤》中巴克与其主人之间不平衡的生态伦理关系和和谐的生态伦理关系。第四部分分析作品中的人与自然的生态伦理关系，着重分析了人对自然的影响以及自然对人类的报复，倡导建立和谐的生态伦理关系。第五部分总结出论文的主旨，倡导回归自然，实现人与自然和谐相处。

关键词：杰克·伦敦；《野性的呼唤》；生态伦理学

Abstract

Jack London is one of the most famous novelists of the 20th century in America. His famous short novel The Call of the Wild is one of Jack London’s most-read books around the world. It is more meaningful to study and research this literary work from the perspective of Ecological Ethics to arouse human’s ecological consciousness and advocate human to live harmoniously with nature. This paper is divided into five parts. The first part is a brief introduction about the author, the novel and the study home and abroad. The second part gives a brief introduction about Ecological Ethics. The third part analyzes the ethical relationship between human and animals. It mainly talks about the unbalanced relationship and the harmonious relationship between Buck and its owners. The fourth part talks about the ethical relationship between human and nature. It focuses on human’s influence to nature and nature’s revenge on human, and advocates human beings to build up a harmonious ecological environment. The final part is the conclusion. It calls for human beings’ returning to nature, and advocates a harmonious relationship between human and nature.

Key words: Jack London; The Call of the Wild; Ecological Ethics

Contents

1 Introduction1

2 Ecological Ethics2

3 Ethical relationship between human and animals4

   3.1 Unbalanced relationship. 4

   3.2 Harmonious relationship5

4 Ethical relationship between human and nature7

   4.1 Human’s influence on nature7

   4.2 Nature’s revenge on human.8

   4.3 Harmonious ecological environment9

5 Conclusion10

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