Apocalyptic Impact of Modernity on Nature in T.C. Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth

Abstract

This paper explores Boyle's novel A Friend of the Earth as an apocalyptic novel in modern period with the work as the setting, the environmentist group focus on the conflict between environmentalist and development. As wilderness is true home of American Northwest and is threatened with invasion, pillage, and destruction, it is essential to protect it. Showing the conflict the thesis aims to leave the traces of protecting the environment. Because of the rapid deterioration of wilderness in the novel the flight trying to reverse the deteriorating process to make the area as it was before destruction. Human activities, power generation, industrial waste dumped in to rivers, artificial method used in agriculture is harmful not only to human but also to animals and plants around.Environmental activist group fight with the dinosaurian bulldozer, polluted cities and corrupted authorizes to save the American North west part of California. By showing apocyptic impacts of modernism on nature, the research aims to leave the force of protecting the environment.Human are the member not master of eco-system. As a member they can support the ecosystem but could not drive it. This is a major concern of this research.This research gets supreme value through eco-criticism perspective.From the lens of eco criticism apocalyptic impact of modernism on nature will be shown. Key Words: Anthropocentric, Eco-System, Respect, America, Pollution, Disaster