생태비평으로 읽는 「곰」: 인간과 자연의 관계
Ecocritical Reading of ‘The Bear’: Relations between Man and Nature
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William Faulkner shows his interest in nature in “The Bear” and depicts Ike, the protagonist, as an ecologist. In the early twentieth century when he wrote this story, renewed violence and oppression against black people along with unprecedented environmental destruction swept the United States. Responding to the social issues at hand, I think in the story, Faulkner expressed his views on the relations between man and nature, and between man and man based on ecocentric perspective. From the ecological point of view, all organisms are interrelated and interact with each other, and eventually they are regarded as one in the circulation of life. Therefore, man cannot dominate nature let alone fellow man. In the story, Ike goes into the wilderness at ten to be a real hunter and he comes to understand and commune with nature under the guidance of Sam Fathers. After this, he finds his grandfather’s shameful sin, miscegenation and incest, and decides to repudiate the land, grandfather’s inheritance. He continues to think about the South stained by slavery and feels guilty about the racial oppression and exploitation of slaves. It is through the experience in the big woods that he realizes both environmental destruction and racial injustice come from egocentric thinking. He practices what he learned in the woods by repudiating the land and shows us how we recognize and respect the value of all beings.
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William Faulkner shows his interest in nature in “The Bear” and depicts Ike, the protagonist, as an ecologist. In the early twentieth century when he wrote this story, renewed violence and oppression against black people along with unprecedented environmental destruction swept the United States. Responding to the social issues at hand, I think in the story, Faulkner expressed his views on the relations between man and nature, and between man and man based on ecocentric perspective. From the ecological point of view, all organisms are interrelated and interact with each other, and eventually they are regarded as one in the circulation of life. Therefore, man cannot dominate nature let alone fellow man. In the story, Ike goes into the wilderness at ten to be a real hunter and he comes to understand and commune with nature under the guidance of Sam Fathers. After this, he finds his grandfather’s shameful sin, miscegenation and incest, and decides to repudiate the land, grandfather’s inheritance. He continues to think about the South stained by slavery and feels guilty about the racial oppression and exploitation of slaves. It is through the experience in the big woods that he realizes both environmental destruction and racial injustice come from egocentric thinking. He practices what he learned in the woods by repudiating the land and shows us how we recognize and respect the value of all beings.
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