Keywords : literature, environment, ecological, climate change, hostile, crisis, survive

Abstract : Since prehistory, literature and the arts have been drawn to portrayals of physical environments and human-environment interactions. In adopting a new ecological worldview, it is necessary to generate environmentalist social change in response to ecological crisis. The geopolitical map is in the midst of rapid change. The ecological crisis sends us back to a general crisis of society, politics, and existentialism. In the age of the environmental crisis, Heed has been paid towards global climate change. This is now-a-days affecting every country in the world. Humans changing relationship to the natural world have become a matter of big concern to focus on nature. Published in 2004, The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh is a world-wide undefeated novel. The ecological issues are closely examined. A hostile environment is reflected by setting the novel in Sunderbans. All the characters keep struggling to survive. The present paper is set to undertake ecological issues highlighted in the novel.

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