Survival of the Fittest in Jack London’s The Call of the Wild

Abstract

The Call of the Wild is a genuine depiction of the Darwinian concept of survival of the fittest which demonstrates the life full of struggle, competition and the hardship in the Canadian wilderness faced by the dogs that are forced to carry the heavy load in the extreme cold. The central story revolves around a dog that lives an easy and comfortable life in Judge Miller’s estate and suddenly abducted by the gold hunters and faces a lot of tortures and pains. In the Canadian wilderness, Buck has to fight with the extreme cold, with the tortures of his masters, with the starvation and with other wild dogs. He has to struggle hard more with other wild dogs than anything else in the forest. Buck fights with the dogs to be adapted in the wilderness. He fits himself in the environment because his gene best suits the animalistic world. Because of the demonstration of the struggle and the extreme hardships of the dogs and the men in the Canadian wilderness this novel is the genuine presentation of the survival of the fittest.