An Ecocritical Study of Malville’s Moby Dick

Abstract

The continental philosophy has lad emphasis on the gross dismissal attitude of man to pro-animal or non-human discourse, and how man-talk has gained attention all along to prove his apocalyptic status of anthropocentricism. The continental writers tend to fee that the strength and cunningness of man alone do not make him the crown of creations; on the contrary, man is the most bungled of all animals, the sickliest, and one has stayed more dangerously from its instincts. Based on this notion the focus is constrained to human-animal studies to drive home the feeling of compassion on non-human animals with reference to Melville’s Moby Dick. Ecocriticism examines how human perception of wilderness has changed throughout history and whether or not current environment issues are accurately represented or even mentioned in popular culture and modern literature. Thus, the present analysis of Moby Dick props the ways in which interactions between literature and other cultural practices produce and reflect especially the feelings of compassion, and identifies the advocacy of animals of this world, and the progress of ecocritical thought and compassion for nonhuman species.