Loyalty in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and All the Pretty Horses
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Eco-fiction, plotting the connection between humanities and nature and nature itself, is a literary study aiming to form an awareness toward the natural world and its habitants. It covers either the humanistic impacts on nature or a nature without the interruption of human being. As it is impossible to assess human history without nature, literature centers upon how nature affects the presence of mankind. Additionally, it details what has occurred and could occur in the future. Cormac McCarthy, voicing the significant connection between the nature and human being, successfully demonstrates the combination of science fiction and fantasy literature through the novels he writes. He enables us to see what we cannot see and discover the new dimensions of naturalistic world under the surface. As the examples of eco-criticism, McCarthy’s novels The Road and All the Pretty Horses thematize a post-apocalyptic world and a strong desire to pastoral life respectively. In The Road, we witness the persistent search and perseverance of a father and his son to be able to survive in a wracked world. Likewise, All The Pretty Horses provide readers with obstinate fidelity and determination to what is believed to be true for the figures reflected. This study aims to uncover the common theme ‘’loyalty’’ as one of the key elements to survive and reach an idealized life even though catastrophic events are presented.
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Birincil Dil
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Kasım 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
10 Haziran 2017
Kabul Tarihi
28 Ekim 2017
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Cilt: 8 Sayı: 2