Dialogue Between Nature and Human in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace

Critical Literary Studies

Roya Yaghoubi¹  Fatemeh Golpaygani² 

[1] Assistant Professor, Department of English Literature, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran;Department of English Literature, Islamic Azad University, Tehran South Branch, Tehran, Iran;

关键词: eco-criticism;    environment;    landscape;    life;    plants;   

DOI  :  10.34785/J014.2021.353

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article will portray Atwood’s Alias Grace (1996) from an Eco-critical viewpoint. The real concern of eco-criticism is to create an eco-literary discourse to produce an interactive approach between the language of nature and the literary language. Likewise, Gregory Garrard explored a different way between humans and environment in the area of cultural spheres in his article in 2016. Garrard wrote a well-known book, Eco-criticism, in 2004 and explored concepts of this approach like: pollution, wilderness, dwelling, animals, and the earth. This type of awareness in literature is significant because of both the current environmental crisis and possible disasters in the future. As such, nature signifies a metaphor for life in the environment. Apart from that, a rural landscape has a profound impact not only on characters, but also on humans the world over. Meanwhile, Atwood followed a creative path which identifies environmental crisis as a modern problem with eccentric human nature as a key element in global ecological concerns. Hence, the main purpose of the current article is looking for a close relationship between humans and nature in the literature which has been ignored in many criticisms.Finding enough harmony with nature will be a plausible result of it.

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