Anthropocentric Eco-Judgement in Corbett's Man Eaters of Kumaon
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My study in Corbett's Man Eaters of Kumaon is to show the deteriorating
environmental ethics due to the hunting motif undertaken by Corbett himself towards
the wild lives, and to plea for the balanced and healthy environment. In quest of
establishing anthropo-supremacy, he happens to be blind towards the animal rights.
Wild lives are killed by Corbett in order to protect the rule of human beings forgetting
the logic of organic whole. But he is oblivious towards the indirect self-suffering as
the logic of organic whole supposes all the things into the same circle and are treated
and located equally. Nature is an organic whole, in an intricate web with man, which
Corbett totally discards here. By not assimilating the logic of nature, Corbett along
with the villagers of Kumaoni region suffer themselves. Therefore, with the motif of
anthropocentrism, and thereby exploiting on nature, Corbett eventually gets himself in
destructive self together with the Kumaoni villagers.