Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood: humanity in an ecocritical perspective
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https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i16.25221Keywords:
Atwood (Margaret), Ecocriticism, The Year of the FloodAbstract
Margaret Atwood’ novel The Year of the Flood presents, from an ecocritical perspective, the dilemmas and anguishes that affect human nature. This essay, focused on The Year of the Flood, has as main purposes: 1) To identify the symbolic value of a group of survivors, the God’s Gardeners, and their positions on humanity’s future; 2) To highlight the concept of apocalypse in Atwood’s word; 3) To show that “speculative fiction raises an original ecocritical approach to the connexions between human beings and environment.
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