Politics of Apocalyptic Vision in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
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This thesis examines and analyzes human-nature relation in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) and argues that the author intends to highlight the survival crisis of human beings through the apocalyptic portrayal of the world the characters live in. Such apocalyptic projection of the environment employed as a strategy for raising environmental awareness to carry out environmental friendly actions to mitigate the possible crisis. An imaginative sum up of the future life of the earth in novel makes each individual have a deep thought on significance of environment on its genuine ground and underpinning of this fact would no longer support the life of creatures. In the novel the major characters father and son are unable to escape the nature and are on consistent move observing the destroyed environmental situations of which both of them are the victims. This thesis analyses the novel using ecocriticism as a theoretical tool basically taking the idea of Lawrence Buell and Arthur Schopenhauer in order to make the research authentic and reliable.