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An Eco critical perspective in the novel “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville
Ms.Joshi Shaluja Praxy
Pages: 1-11 | First Published: 05 Feb 2025
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Abstract 

Herman Melville, an American author, is renowned for his literary masterpiece "Moby Dick". This essay aims to analyse Moby Dick by applying ecocriticism theory. The author wants to study the novel using eco-criticism from three different angles, including nature, society, and spirit, to examine American society (Love, Glen A, 2003). This will help contemporary society become more knowledgeable about avoiding and addressing problems of this sort. This paper, which is divided into multiple sections, begins by introducing Melville and Moby Dick as well as ecocriticism. Then, it uses eco-criticism to analyze the novel from three different angles before concluding to an end by discussing the novel's true meaning as a whole (Qi, Wenjin, 2020). Keywords: Eco-criticism, Ecology, Moby Dick, Human and nature.

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