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Journal Article
Pandemic and the Life Cycles in Jack London's the Scarlet Plague
2023
Overview
This paper examines the social causes of epidemics and its consequences which lead to form new life cycles. Epidemics, in addition to other factors, including natural disasters and wars are one of the factors that would cause a sudden and rapid decline in population numbers. The theme of epidemics and their role in the decline of human numbers in addition to other topics such as the injustice use of natural resources and exploitation of the lower classes, are the most important themes that London discusses in his novel The Scarlet Plague. The opinions and ideas of some researchers and theorists are adopted like Turchin and Nefedov's theory, \"Secular Cycles\" for analyzing the socio-economic aspects of London's addressed novel. The study follows the social and political causes of the spread of these epidemics, which, due to the spead of such epidemics, have led to the elimination of humanity and all the features of urbanization on the one hand, and the social caste system on the other hand, the side that man has always sought to preserve. To clarify and discuss the social and political reasons that led to the emergence of these epidemics, the study adopts the socio-economic framework. The study concluded that the insistence of the dominant classes on the unfair exploitation of natural resources and the working classes led to a shrinking of healthy environments for humans, which led to an increase in population density in small areas, which helped the spread of epidemics randomly and rapidly. Besides, Natural forces, including epidemics, have the ability to displace all unjust man-made systems and establish a new life cycle.
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جامعة بابل - كلية التربية للعلوم الإنسانية
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