Loss Of Morals In The Devastated Ecosystem In Cormac Mccarthy’s The Road With Biophilic Uphold

A. Joshua Sundar Raja, Dr. K. Kaviarasu

Abstract


Exploiting the earth’s ecosystem has become very casual in the present day. Creating awareness among human beings to stop the exploitation done to the ecosystem is vital. As a part of nature, human beings cannot live without nature. Many public programs are connected for such awareness. In Literature, there is a separate genre named Apocalyptic fiction. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road was a post-apocalyptic novel showing the world’s reality after the apocalypse. “...McCarthy cause to warn the public of imminent threat, to prepare for the worst personally, and to continue voicing his canticles of praise lament and prophetic warning”(Lincoln 22). Upholding the ecological issue with biophilia a Dual Inheritance Theory provides a clear understanding of human beings as a part of nature, and they will not survive without symbiosis with other biotic and abiotic.


Keywords


Biophilia, Apocalypse, Cormac McCarthy, The Road.

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