The Sea-Wolf

by

Jack London

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Seals

The Sea-Wolf contains numerous allusions to “survival of the fittest,” a phrase Charles Darwin coined to describe how the organisms that are most likely to survive and reproduce are those that are best adjusted to…

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Wind

Wind, which is often important to sailors, plays a key role in several of the events in The Sea-Wolf, and its unpredictable nature helps to portray how sailors—and humans in general—are subject to random…

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