Forster's A Passage to India.(E. M. Forster)(Critical essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20060622
Author:Panda, Ram Narayan

Anthropocentrism and nonanthropocentrism signify two different ecological positions. Anthropocentrism is man-centered, emphasizing the need to protect the interests of humans and thus assessing the importance of other ecological entities in terms of their usefulness to man. Nonanthropocentrism champions the cause of nonhuman entities, both sentient and nonsentient, highlighting their inherent significance regardless of their usefulness to the world of man. This paradigm of distinction can be adopted in literary analysis when seeking to understand the treatment/significance of the ...

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