Authors : Salunkhe D.G.
Page Nos : 28-30
Description :
Human beings are a part of nature and they are totally dependent on it for everything.
Unfortunately man has forgotten it and is living his life in unnatural way. As literat
ure is the reflection
of life, the literary writers reflect man and his life in the background of nature where the writers provide
description of nature, the characters love and attitude towards nature in their works. There are number
of writers who put fo
rth nature as an unavoidable part of human life. Romantic poets like Shelley, Keats,
Wordsworth, and Coleridge depicted nature as a source of inspiration and instructor of human beings.
Like poets some Indian novelists such as Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai et
c. portrayed nature in the novel
and invoked readers to follow nature. Environmental study in literature is known as Eco critical study of
the novel. It is need of time to make people aware about the environment; literature is the prime source
to convey t
his thought among people. It is a social responsibility carried out by the literary phenomenon.
Present paper is an attempt to study the environmental issue carried out by Kiran Desai in her well
known novel
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
. The protagonist
of the novel, Sampath is fed up with the
hectic town life and leaves the place to be alone feeling oneness with nature.
