The author, Jack London, does wonders in this one, The Sea-Wolf. It is, amongst other books, one of the very best, and it even ranks as one of Jack London's top three, those being The Call of the Wild and White Fang.
These stories are all endowed with a supreme being, where nature, animal, and human become merged into one entity, one single identity. This is literally the case for The Sea-Wolf.
It does, once again, portray the main character, or one of them, as the black sheep, the hybrid, the loose canon in all of the character, but it does so in a different manner.
This manner, in which the book is written, does not begin to cherish how Jack London's thoughts are deep. This aforementioned depth is none like the other, for it gives a new sense of identity, where all is integrated, all is one, and none are alike, nonetheless.
This book is filled with raw human emotion, as well as animalistic, primal even, one might call it. However, it does not disgust the reader one bit.
As a matter of fact, it interacts with them, as if it were another human being interacting with them. They feel engaged with, talked to, and, most importantly, drawn to the book itself, to its ideas. So on and so forth!
The plot revolves around an intellectual named Humphrey Van Weyden. This man was brought to self-reliance due to the hardships life doted on him.
This cruelty, brutality, and bitterness of life changed him completely. The story begins with a soft undertone with the protagonist.
However, that sheltered view of life is soon shattered to pieces as they collide with another ship-where his story started-and everything crumbles down.
The Sea-Wolf takes a turn for the psychological, as the protagonist is a queer individual, hedonist, and materialist. He embarks on a journey for the spiritual, racking his mind between two choice-pleasure or a new-found sense of immortality.
In addition to the surface meaning provided by the author, there is a rip in the fabric of reality, where appearances deceive the not-so-keen eye, precisely when the author tampers with philosophy, biology, and psychoanalysis!
