Abstract Jack London is an important writer in American literary history, whose novel White Fang is well known for its special writing style and distinctive character features. In the book, Jack London describes the two different personalities of people who living in the different geographical environments and the transformation of White Fang’s personalities with the changes of humanistic environment. Wildness is sharpened by the cold northern land and the humanity is wakened in the warm southern land. By analyzing the two different personalities of people and giving a research to the transformation of White Fang’s personalities under different owners, the thesis will study the different environments and make a deeper research to the functions of environment on the personalities.54809

Keywords: White Fang; humanity; wildness; different environments;personalities

 摘要作为一名著名作家，杰克·伦敦在美国文学史上的地位非常重要。出版的小说带有极浓重的自然主义色彩，而《白牙》正是其中的代表作之一。在此作品中，作者描写了不同地理环境下人类之间的性格差异，以及白牙在人文环境转变前后不同的思想和性格转变的历程。不同的地理环境，使得人与人之间的性格天差地别，而人文环境的转变也使得白牙的性格特质发生巨大改变。野性在北方严酷的环境之下被极度的激发，而人性则在温暖的南方慢慢复苏。本文将从人类和白牙两个角度出发，通过研究不同环境背景下的人物性格，和不同主人驯养下白牙前后的性格转变，来阐释环境差异对于人性和野性形成的重要作用以及生存环境转变对动物性格的重大影响，以此表现作者对于人类文明进步的美好愿望。

毕业论文关键词：白牙；人性；野性；环境差异；性格 

Contents

1.  Introduction 1

1.1 A Brief Introduction about the Author and the Novel 1

1.2 A Brief Introduction about the Environmental Effect 1

2.  Literature Review 2

3. The Deep Influence of Different Geographical Environments on the Formation of People’s Personalities 3

3.1 Wildness：An Analysis of the North People like Gray Beaver and Beauty Smith 5

3.2 Humanity：An Analysis of the South People like Weedon Scott 6

4. The Deep Influence of Different Humanistic Environments on the Formation of White Fang’s Characters 7

4.1 Wildness：An Analysis of White Fang’s Characters in the Early Stage 8

4.2 Humanity：An Analysis of White Fang’s Characters in the Later Stage 9

5. Conclusion 10

Works Cited 12

1. Introduction 

1.1 A Brief Introduction about the Author and the Novel

Jack London was born on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco. Although London had his great aim of studying, he had no chance to study in the school for his dream because of his poor family. He was essentially self-educated. On July 12, 1897, London and his sister's husband Captain Shepard sailed to join the Klondike Gold Rush. This is the setting for some of his first successful stories. “It was in the Klondike I found myself. There nobody talks, everyone thinks. You get your true perspective. I got mine.” (Deane, 1968: 7)

Like other great writers, London wrote about life as he saw. The majority of his works about men and animals against the environment and survival against hardships were drawn mainly from his own experience. He passed his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums so that he got known how the poor battled to live. His years in the Klondike searching for gold also left their mark in his novels.