The Comparison Between the “Moby Dick” and “The Old Man and the Sea” from the Perspective of Ecocriticism

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10.2991/assehr.k.201127.124How to use a DOI?

Keywords

ecocriticism, anthropocentrism, “The Old Man and the Sea”, “Moby Dick”

Abstract

Ecocriticism focuses on the relationship between literature and natural environment and advocates the application of ecological concepts in literary research and the reading and criticism of literary works from the perspective of ecology. Ecocriticism takes the overall interests of the ecosystem as the highest value, opposing anthropocentrism, and holds that human and nature are equal, and that human is the son of nature and a part of nature. Through the lens of ecological criticism, this article briefly introduces the ecological criticism of positive thinking, reverse thinking and the significance of ecological criticism and analyses the protagonists in “Moby Dick” and “The Old Man and the Sea” symbolizing disparate anthropocentrism to help people better understand the two works, so that people can get rid of the values of anthropocentrism, at the meanwhile, set up the right values.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shanyu Lin
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/28
TI  - The Comparison Between the “Moby Dick” and “The Old Man and the Sea” from the Perspective of Ecocriticism
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 620
EP  - 624
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201127.124
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201127.124
ID  - Lin2020
ER  -