ey has read about. Humphrey falls deeply in love with Maud. One day he finds Wolf Larsen forcing himself upon her and he stabs him in the shoulder. That night he takes a hunter's boat and flees with Maud and they find an island. They build a hut there and plan to spend their winter there until one day Humphrey looks out to the shore and sees the Ghost. He finds one person on it, Wolf Larsen, who is now blind and useless. So Maud and Humphrey fix up the boat and head for Japan. On their way Wolf Larsen has several strokes and dies. A few days later a ship comes upon them and they are saved. Maud and Humphrey are so joyous that they have their first passionate kiss.
             London describes Larsen as being "probably five feet ten inches but my first impressions or feel of the man, was not of this, but of his strength. And yet, while he was of massive build, with broad shoulders and deep chest, I could not characterize his strength as massive" (13).
             Wolf Larsen is one of the most fluctuating characters London has created. One minute he is beating on his crewmates and the next minute he is reading complex books by philosophical authors. He has so many thoughts going through his head it is virtually impossible to depict what he will do next. "Wolf Larsen was really a sort of nautical Nietzche or a Lucifer of the sealing trade-viscous and proud spirit that he was condemned by his own excess of vitality" (Geismar 264). In this quote Geismar is comparing Larsen to Nietzche, who was an English philosopher. "Where is the flaw in Larsen's logic? The answer is, there is none-from Larsen's point of view. Larsen's philosophy for the Superior Man. His scheme of society is a scheme of society that would originate among a score of men, cast upon an island, where there was insufficient food and water" (Nuernberg 102). "To most readers the man who strikes and tortures and kills a...