environmental consciousness, Ecocriticism a tradition of environmental consciousness, according to which human wellbeing is understood to coordinate with the ecological health of the land.

Ecocriticism in the past, literary critics might have leant on history, philosophy or the social sciences in framing their readings of particular texts, ecocritics also draw on geography, ecology and other natural sciences.

Ecocriticism Women have a close symbolic and to some extent also practical association with nature, namely through the kinds of labour they have traditionally performed. Thus, they have been cast either as `primitive‟ and potentially “monstrous,” hence part of that nature that was to be mastered by rational man, and/or as an alluring embodiment of that nature to which rational man simultaneously longs to return .

forged, now as in antiquity, out of a ruined civilization? Can a new world be forged, now as in antiquity, out of a ruined civilization?

MYTHOPOEIC Ideals of the imagination, myths and archetypes serve as conceptual frames capable of making order out of the chaos of experience.

Nature Contact with nature is crucial for only in the natural world, especially in the modern age, can we read mythic truth.

Nature * Humans alienated from the natural environment become less than human. * Man must live in harmony with nature. * Life overwhelmed by technology and materialism produces superficial humans. .

Power We have sources of natural power that no one can take from us if we recognize and use it.

Naturalism The naturalistic view of humans is that they respond to the natural world much like animals, reacting to natural forces they neither understand nor control. Naturalism embraces sociological and economic determinism. Human beings are often portrayed as victims of destiny or fate. Naturalistic writers portray nature as indifferent. Naturalists strive for objectivity. Naturalists are pessimistic about human capabilities. Life is a trap. Naturalists portray humans as animalistics.