Volume I Special Issue I September 2021

Name of Author : R Infant Lourdu Rashni

Title of the paper : Ecosystem versus Ethical System in the Select Novels of Amitav Ghosh

Abstract: Ecocriticism is developed as a study of relationship between literature and the natural environment in the mid of 1990s. In the present century many writers have emerged to demonstrate the importance of environment and their concern through literature. One such writer is Amitav Ghosh. The relation between nature and society plays vital role in the novels of Amitav Ghosh belended with myths, folklores and historical backgrounds. The objective of this paper is an attempt to critically analyse the select novels of Amitav Ghosh namely The Hungry Tide and Gun Island and to bring out the ecocritical perspectives of these novels. The paper mainly focuses on the exploitation of nature, the relationship between man and nature and also how human culture is connected to the environment affecting it and also affected by it. We are facing global crisis today, not because of how ecosystem functions but because of how our ethical system functions towards nature.

Keywords : Ecosystem, Ethical System, Myths, Exploitation of Nature, and Man-Nature Relationship

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Page Number : 90-93