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"Martin Eden" is an autobiographical novel published by the famous American novelist Jack London in 1909, and it is also one of his masterpieces, the content of the novel is mostly based on his real life experience, which fully reflects his early self-study and persistence in writing.

Unfortunately, in the later period, Jack London gradually broke away from social struggles and pursued personal enjoyment.

In 1916, he committed suicide by taking poison in a state of extreme mental depression and emptiness.

The novel is about a young sailor, Martin Eden, who meets the Rose family by chance, and makes him fascinated by the life of the bourgeoisie, and even more enchanting to him is the elegant and beautiful Rose.

Rose also fell in love with this young man who was full of strength, like a wisp of fresh air. In order to cross the huge flood ditch with Rose, he made up his mind to climb up, and under the great impetus of longing for innocent love, he read angrily. He continued to write, but was coldly rejected, and the only person who admired him was Blissnden, a cynical literary genius.

Martin Eden gradually discovers that high society is not as noble as he thought, Rose leaves him, Bresenden dies, and the spiritual pillars that underpin his struggle collapse.

However, he became famous overnight, money and prestige rolled in, and those who despised him in the past flattered him, and Rose was also sent to the door. Martin Eden saw through the disgust of all this and finally understood that Rose was not a goddess, she was just a pale and vulgar bourgeois lady. In a sense of utter disillusionment, Martin Eden ended his young life on the black sea at night.

Martin Eden loved so wildly that he would not hesitate to change himself, not to give anything. It is often said that love is blind and it can make people lose themselves. However, there is the opposite situation, love will also make people discover themselves. In front of Ruth, Martin felt the revelation of God, baptized by beauty, he was suddenly surprised to find that he had infinite strength and surging enthusiasm, he could become another kind of person, so he longed to dedicate all his best to his lover, he struggled hard, he changed himself, he pinned his future on this love, however, this love, in fact, is just his own fantasy, he loves only his ideal Ruth, the fairy in his dream, a genie that shines in his love poem.

When all the beautiful visions collapsed, this love ceased to exist, and he painfully found that he had never loved this vulgar and narrow woman in front of him. People always like, or always accustomed to using the four words "bitter and sweet" to describe the course of life, and often with some easy breathing and cheerful smiles, but do not know that suffering makes people survive, success sometimes means a kind of lost emptiness danger.

The loneliness and boredom in failure are just chronic drugs that poison life, and sudden success, especially the things that are too beautiful brought about by success, are like a sharp blade, piercing his chest and destroying his soul in one fell swoop. Martin chose to die, not before Ruth betrayed him, but after Ruth came to him again. This is by no means an author's writing skill, but an inevitable trend in the fate of the characters. Because when Ruth betrayed their love, Martin didn't feel too deeply the sadness of loss, even though everything he had was for her to continue. He felt more at peace, because his life was very fulfilling——— working hard, reading books and creating desperately, bringing him knowledge and strength at the same time. Even he hadn't fully reacted at the time, didn't realize that everything was over between them, even though he saw the problem so deeply and eloquently. Maybe it's that he feels he still has something to do, that he still has a direction to work towards, and that he has a goal to achieve: what he likes, what success he craves, what money he needs. The power of love and the yearning for the upper class made Sailor Martin carry out a complete revolution in his spirit, he constantly learned knowledge, constantly sought to improve, eager to reach the peak of the spiritual world through literary creation, to improve his personality and spirit, and thus squeezed into high society, and finally recognized by this society and also got Ruth's love. For it seemed to him that in order to gain the love of Ruth, a noble lady of high society, he must be in harmony with her, especially in the spiritual world, and there must be a common language. Still, when Martin got everything he had hoped for, he chose to die.

Materialism and human nature are distorted, which is originally inhabited by this world. No one felt anything, but he chose to die. In fact, Martin is not dead, he is not world-weary, and he is not giving up on life. Only because he loves life too much, he loves the truth too much, he longs too much for beauty, so he has no way to accept this hypocritical and vulgar everything in reality, he struggles, he fights all this in his own way. He chose death, hidden underwater, the final and highest sublimation of this great soul.

Martin Eden is one of my favorite novels, but I actually decided to read it because of the previous prologue, the sentence "Let my blood boil for the rest of my life" and "Intoxicated in a wine-like dream".

I love his madness, pushing the limits and fighting for the goal!! I also like Brissenden, who is also a crazy person.

I think this novel is Jack London's self-portrait straight to the bottom of his heart. Revealing a deeply hidden animalistic, fire-like personality, burning and burning, the only thing left is the iron bone. Even if he committed suicide in the end, choosing to return to the original ocean of inspiration and ideals, I can still hear his wild laughter in the dark depths- because he directed a magnificent tragedy and finally achieved it with great vigor.

For him, the peak of life should be to experience the greatness and pride of life from his own pain and even destruction, and to be proud of all tragedies. The deeper the tragedy, the braver the soul, as in Hemingway's work: a man is not born to be defeated, you can destroy him, but you can't defeat him.

I like Jack London a lot because he's brave and dares to fight. I agree with him. Burning like a fiery explosion, unleashing infinite tension, he successfully interpreted what he considered noble, that is, the beastly nature that erupted in the face of the most primitive fear, death, the madness to survive. It also shows his definition of this world – a world where the weak prey on the strong – and the brave win!