Eco Criticism in the stories of Panchatantra

2. ECOCRITICISM IN THE STORIES OF
PANCHATANTRA
Paper No. 7 – Literary Theory and Criticism
Name – Dharaba Rayjada
M.A Sem – 2
Roll No. – 7
Email Id – dharabarayjada021@gmail.com
Submitted to – Smt. S.B.Gardi Department of English MKBU

3. WHAT IS ECOCRITICISM?
• Ecocriticism is literary and cultural
criticism from an environmentalist
viewpoint. Texts are evaluated in
terms of their environmentally
harmful or helpful effects. Beliefs
and ideologies are assessed for
their environmental implications.
Ecocritics analyse the
representation of ‘nature’ in
literary work.

4. SOME CONCEPTS OF ECOCRITICISM
• Ecology
Ecology is scientific study of natural interdependencies: of life
forms as they relate to each other and their shared environment.
• Ecosystem
An Ecosystem is a local set of conditions that support life.
• Ecological Niche
The niche within the ecosystem is the ‘space’ the species
occupies: the combination of factors that makes population
viable, including food, shelter, temprature, and numbers of
predetors and competitors.

5. CONTINUE...
• Food chain
This term describes one of the sets of relationships that make an
ecosystem: the way in which energy circulates.
• Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism
Anthropocentrism means placing human at centre of everything
and and regarded other resources to be consumed by human
being. Ecocentrism menas attempting, at least as an imaginative
gesture, to place the ecosystem, rather then humanity, at centre.
• Ecofeminism
‘Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?’ – Sherry B. Ortner.

6. ECOCRITICISM ON PANCHATANTRA
• Humans in body of animals
• Human Name
• Human language
• Idea of Family
• Give them superego
• Tools of our purpose
• It is Anthropocentric

8. CONCLUSION
• It is benificial to the world as
soon as Human race starts
believing that they are not the
centre of the Natural system,
they are part of Natural system.