Repercussion of the Dystopic waste Land: An Eco-Critical study of Pat Barker’s Double Vision

Abstract

Nature is traditionally a setting or a background in a novel. Nevertheless, the nature possesses the ability to influence, respond, and react to the human characters and also influence the narrative to a larger extend. The leading ecologist, Barry Commoner’s first law of ecology is that “everything is connected to everything else” by which he insists on the connection of human world to everything else in the ecosphere. It is a universal fact that human behaviours are a reflection of one’s psyche. Likewise, the representation of nature in the British novelist Pat Barker’s novel, Double Vision is a reflection of the dark, human and natural world throughout the novel. This paper attempts to divulge nature as a character in Pat Barker’s novel which influences, responds and affects the other characters and the narrative. Pertaining to that argument, the researcher believes that through this elevation of the nature as a character in the novel, the literary work fulfils the implications and mindfulness to nature by the humankind.