Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea: An Ecocritical Study

Abstract

Cheryll Glotfelty has simply mentioned that the relationship between literature and physical environment is Ecocriticism. Ecocriticism is the study of relationship to the discursive meditation of the natural environment in the lieu of literature. The close association of the nature with human life is initiated and studied in Ecocriticism. Lawrence Buell and Ursula K. Heise extend the idea of the relationship between literature and environment as human nature interactions. The theory also broadens our view of the study of the nature along with the other prospects which are in its periphery. The eco-criticism will help to discover and develop a vision, a balanced attitude towards sustainable and reverential environment. It will also study its representation in literature, focusing on the varied and stimulating works novelists. In literary works, environmental crisis and ecological consciousness have always been an integral part of human life, the main need which today surrounds us with the issues these days is an outcome of the understanding that we may return back to nature. This paper is an attempt to contemplate the theoretical framework with reference to the study of canonical text. The Old Man and the Sea (1952) is one of the finest works of Ernest Hemingway, an American writer. The novel depicts the close proximity of the association of man and nature.