웬델 베리의『제이버 크로우』에 나타난생태적 농업과 영농산업의 대비(對比)
The Comparison between Ecological Agriculture and Agribusiness in Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
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This paper aims to explore Wendell Berry’s ecological vision by comparing ecological agriculture and agribusiness revealed in his novel, Jayber Crow. The author embodies his ecological vision in the novel through the conflict between two farmers, Athey Keith and his son‑in‑law, Troy Chatham. In the ecological agriculture, such values as organic relations and interdependence between the members of a farm have been respected. Farming, whose aim is to feed and raise lives, degenerated into agribusiness, whose biggest concern is to maximize profit in the shortest time period. Troy insists on changing to modernized and mechanical ways of farming, as agribusinesses advertise. The businesses put commercial values ahead of everything, claiming that agricultural implements and chemicals like pesticides and herbicides will foster efficiency and enhance farm production. Traditional farms like Athey’s, how small they are, have been totally self-sufficient in food production, while Troy’s farm becomes more and more dependent on agribusinesses. The dominant‒subordinate relationship aggravates Troy’s farm, which is typical of today’s mechanical farms. Troy ends up going bankrupt and cannot help selling “the Nest Egg”, though he and his wife, Mattie Keith, inherit a farm from Athey, her father. The comparison between traditional farming and agribusiness in the novel reveals Berry’s ecological vision which seeks sustainable ways of life for all the members of our ecological community.
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This paper aims to explore Wendell Berry’s ecological vision by comparing ecological agriculture and agribusiness revealed in his novel, Jayber Crow. The author embodies his ecological vision in the novel through the conflict between two farmers, Athey Keith and his son‑in‑law, Troy Chatham. In the ecological agriculture, such values as organic relations and interdependence between the members of a farm have been respected. Farming, whose aim is to feed and raise lives, degenerated into agribusiness, whose biggest concern is to maximize profit in the shortest time period. Troy insists on changing to modernized and mechanical ways of farming, as agribusinesses advertise. The businesses put commercial values ahead of everything, claiming that agricultural implements and chemicals like pesticides and herbicides will foster efficiency and enhance farm production. Traditional farms like Athey’s, how small they are, have been totally self-sufficient in food production, while Troy’s farm becomes more and more dependent on agribusinesses. The dominant‒subordinate relationship aggravates Troy’s farm, which is typical of today’s mechanical farms. Troy ends up going bankrupt and cannot help selling “the Nest Egg”, though he and his wife, Mattie Keith, inherit a farm from Athey, her father. The comparison between traditional farming and agribusiness in the novel reveals Berry’s ecological vision which seeks sustainable ways of life for all the members of our ecological community.
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