Jhon Barleycorn by Jack London - Essay Example

a dimension which is free from any rules or obligations. Probably the one who is under the influence, sees things clearly, well at least from a different angle. This angle is far from the norm or what people are used to. The way first chapter of the book begins, it speaks volumes about the mental state of the man. He is going to vote for something very important and he’s drunk. Probably logic doesn’t do justice when it comes to voting. He votes for women suffrage amendment. The popular vote is probably a fabrication, a concoction, and people who craft the ballet box and the election system, design it in such way so that it gets picked up by the majority.

It is equivalent to giving a person a set of choices and when he’s done choosing his favorite, he feels liberated as he used his freedom of choice to get what he liked but little does he know that all choices were acceptable by the person who gave him the choice. The interesting thing about the state of mind (of the protagonist) is when he’s under the influence, he gets more indignant while explaining or talking about something. He explains why he voted for the woman suffrage amendment. Although he claims that he was not under the influence but probably he was.

He gives his reason that he ride his way back from the polling station on the back of the wildest horse. No one can ride it drunk, that’s why he couldn’t be drunk. Nice explanation but it doesn’t prove he wasn’t under the influence. People consider Jack’s book his autobiography. There is no doubt that he was an alcoholic himself. And this book probably is a preaching book towards alcoholism. What a man feels when he’s drunk is something a man can’t understand unless he’s drunk.

Some strange wisdom, which is “beyond life’s wisdom” starts flowing as the rum goes in the body. The question is what kind of explanation is that? On the surface it might seem