1. Martin Eden's autobiographical novel is considered by writer Jack London as his best novel. The novel vividly depicts an upright, honest and tenacious poor boy, who realized his dream and later his dream was shattered. The story of Lu Tao, a young sailor who went to the writer for love and status, is a touching description of the emergence and disillusionment of his ideal. First of all, when he was a sailor, he happened to lend a helping hand to the sons of Arthur and Ruth Morse and visited his home, thus admiring the luxurious life of the upper class. At the same time, he was also moved by the beauty and temperament of well-educated Ruth. In his view, Ruth is the embodiment of his purity, nobility and love. Although he is still a poor boy who can't read, he is determined to become a writer and win the love of Ruth with his amazing willpower and tenacity in pursuing knowledge and status. He is immersed in writing, and his works are often Nietzsche-style or Schopenhauer-style, but only Brissenden, a proletarian poet, understands the beauty and value in his works. His lover Ruth, like her class and family, tried to shape him with "established values" and abandoned him after failing. Although Martin's works failed repeatedly, he fell into abject poverty; However, he was not discouraged and insisted on writing. When he finally succeeded, Ruth wanted to renew her old relationship with him. At this time, Martin deeply felt that love was dead, and Ruth simply refused her because she was greedy for his money and status. This disillusionment was caused by a series of factors, such as Brissenden's suicide and his contempt for the values of the upper class, which eventually made him lose his enthusiasm for life and led him to commit suicide by jumping into the sea.

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Jack London (1876— 19 16) is an American writer who was born in a bankrupt peasant family in San Francisco. Because of his poor family, he was engaged in manual labor since childhood, worked as a child laborer, stevedore and sailor, and then wandered around the United States. I study at the University of California on the basis of my labor income. 1897 Join the ranks of gold diggers in Alaska and other places. The rough life experience in his early years made him aware of the tragic situation of the lower class and the fierce competition between people, which became the source of his later creation. A London writer wrote 19 novels, 150 short stories and stories, three plays, and papers and features. His major works are: Wolf's Son (1900), novella The Call of the Wilderness (1903), novel The Sea-Wolf (1904), Iron Shoes (1908) and Martin Eden.

London's creative thought is complicated and influenced by Marx, Spencer and Nietzsche. As a realistic writer, his works are obviously naturalistic. His works praise the love of life and the struggle against nature, and at the same time reflect the philosophical views of the law of the jungle and the competition for survival. London is good at portraying characters and revealing themes through actions. The novel is compact in structure, concise in words, vivid and touching.

Martin Eden is Jack London's masterpiece, which is autobiographical. The hero Martin Eden was originally a young ordinary sailor. By chance, he met Ross, the daughter of banker Moss. He worships Rose's purity and elegance, and Rose is also attracted by his rudeness. Encouraged by love, Martin studied hard and wrote hard. But their feelings were opposed by the Moss couple, and Ross and Martin broke up. Martin succeeded with great perseverance and became a famous writer. People who used to look down on him now respect him all the more. Ross also wanted to get back together, but Martin angrily refused. However, after Martin entered the upper class, he saw through the selfishness and hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie and committed suicide by jumping into the sea in the pain of disillusionment.

Martin Eden is Jack London's most influential work, because it has obvious autobiographical color and provides valuable materials for understanding and studying London, and because it has high ideological and artistic value, it marks the important development of American realistic literature at the beginning of this century.

Martin Eden's thoughts are rich in content. First of all, it vividly describes the hard struggle of a humble writer and shows the bumpy fate of an upright writer under the capitalist system. Secondly, the novel carefully dissects and mercilessly ridicules the respectable figures of the bourgeoisie. The novel tells people that the real barbarians are not Martin and his class, but only those who claim to be civilized, such as Miss Rose and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Moss. In addition, the novel also criticizes individualism to some extent. Martin can do anything to win Ross's love. He left his class and friends, only to find that it was a dream of Conan. His later regrets, loneliness, emptiness, loneliness and suicide are actually doubts and denials of individualism. However, it needs to be pointed out that while criticizing individualism, the author also exposed his contradictory attitude towards Spencer's social evolution theory and Nietzsche's superman philosophy. The novel's meticulous psychological description and the ability to reveal characters' personalities through their actions are also praised by people.

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A Brief Introduction to Jack London

American writer. Born in a bankrupt peasant family, he made a living by selling labor since he was a child. He once sold newspapers, unloaded goods and worked as a child laborer. As an adult, I worked as a sailor and a worker. I went to Alaska for gold and got septicemia. From then on, I immersed myself in reading and writing and became a professional writer. He wrote 19 novels, 150 short stories and stories, 3 plays, and papers and features. His early works include a collection of short stories describing the life of gold diggers in the north (including the three-part collection Wolf's Son, published from 1900 to 1902, collectively referred to as "northern stories"); Man in the Abyss (1903), a close-up collection describing the life of the poor in London; The Sea-Wolf (1904), a novel describing cruelty and egoism as animals. The work exposes the disadvantages of capitalist society, shows the praise of the tenacious will of the working people and sympathy for the miserable life, and also shows the author's social evolution thought of "survival of the fittest" and Nietzsche's philosophical concept of "superman". He participated in the socialist movement in the 1990s from 65438 to 2009. In the later period, Jack London gradually divorced from social struggle and pursued personal enjoyment. He committed suicide by taking poison in extreme depression and emptiness.