Jack London:The Sea Wolf 和 Martin Eden 英文大意300字以内

Jack London:The Sea Wolf 和 Martin Eden 英文大意300字以内

两篇小说各300字
The Sea Wolf
The Sea Wolf tells the story of an intellectual man named Humphrey van Weyden,forced to become tough and self-reliant by exposure to cruelty and brutality.The story starts with him onboard a San Francisco ferry,called Martinez,which collides with another ship in the fog and sinks.He is set adrift in the sea,eventually being picked up by Wolf Larsen.Larsen is the captain of the seal-hunting schooner,the Ghost.Brutal and cynical,yet also highly intelligent and intellectual (though highly biased in his opinions as he was self-taught),he rules over his ship and terrorizes the crew with the aid of his exceptionally great physical strength.Van Weyden adequately describes him as an individualist,a hedonist,and a materialist.As Larsen does not believe in the immortality of the soul,he finds no meaning in his life save survival and pleasure and has come to despise all human life and deny its value.Being interested in someone capable of intellectual disputes,he somewhat takes care of Van Weyden,whom he calls 'Hump',while forcing him to become a cabin boy,do menial work,and learn to fight to protect himself from a brutal crew.
Martin Eden
Living in Oakland at the dawn of the 20th century,Martin Eden struggles to rise far above his destitute circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education in order to achieve a coveted place among the literary elite.The main driving force behind Martin Eden's efforts is his love for Ruth Morse.Because Eden is a sailor from a working class background,and the Morses are a bourgeois family,a union between them would be impossible until he reaches their level of wealth and perceived cultural,intellectual refinement.Just before the literary establishment discovers Eden’s talents as a writer and lavishes him with the fame and fortune that he had incessantly promised Ruth (for the last two years) would come,she loses her patience and rejects him in a wistful letter:"if only you had settled down…and attempted to make something of yourself." When the publishers and the bourgeois - the very ones who shunned him - are finally at his feet,Martin has already begrudged them and become jaded by unrequited toil and love.Instead of enjoying his success,Eden retreats into a quiet indifference,only interrupted to mentally rail against the genteelness of bourgeois society or to donate his new wealth to working class friends and family.The novel ends with Martin Eden committing suicide by drowning,a detail which undoubtedly contributed to what researcher Clarice Stasz calls the 'biographical myth' that Jack London's own death was a suicide.