Separation from Nature: An Eco-critical Viewpoint of The Heart Goes Last

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Fatemeh Golpaygani ¹ , رویا Yaghoubi ² , محمد مطیعی ³

1 - Department of Literature, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Literature, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of English, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-06-19 Accepted : 2023-02-21 Published : 2023-07-01

Keywords: dream, freedom, animals, Ecosphere, Natural World,

Abstract :

The current paper analyzes Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last (2015) from an eco-critical viewpoint. The main concern of eco-criticism is to make a close relationship between the language of nature and literary language. Likewise, Gregory Garrard explained new ways between humans and the environment in the area of cultural spheres in 2016, though there were three waves toward this approach in the 2000s. It is significant to get more information about the natural world not only for the current environmental crisis but also for possible disasters in the future. As such, people would dream of nature in many parts of their life that will be discussed in the novel. These dreams show inner desire of people for their environment as an inevitable part of life. Apart from that, separation from nature will lead to plausible disasters in human life. Meanwhile, Atwood has described nature as a concern for global ecological concerns. The role of the ecosphere aside from the usefulness of animals would be analyzed in this paper as well. Hence, considering the most influential factors of ecology will help readers better recognize the world and will likely attempt to put the theoretical approach into practice.

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