This island has to be saved for its trees, it has to be saved for its animals it is a part of a reserve forest, it belongs to a project to save tigers, which is paid for by people from all around the world….who love animals so much that they are willing to kill us for them…this whole world has become a place for animals, and our fault, our crime was that we were just human beings, trying to live as human beings always have, from the water and the soil. No human being could think this crime unless they have forgotten that this is how humans have always lived- by fishing, by clearing land and by planting the soil. (The Hungry Tide, 261-261)
Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide presents the dichotomy of wild life versus human suffering and the destruction of the ecosystem versus human survival. Set in the Sundarbans, a place where nature is harsh and vengeful making the struggle for human existence an intense task, the novel explores the plight of displaced people in their struggle for land and the constant fight for survival in a dangerous and fragile ecosystem which humans share with animals. Environmental groups zealously strive to protect the tiger habitats and as environmental issues …show more content…
The space of struggle between species conservation and the dispossession of man result in conflicts pitting man against nature, raising moral questions of environmental ethics, human interactions with nature, relations between animals and humans and the consideration of animal rights. The Hungry Tide explores what the Sundarbans mean to those who inhabit this fragile ecosystem after having fought and survived to lay claim to a portion of the earth as their home; the legends of the archipelago which create an ecological balance and individual struggles to find their
Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide presents the dichotomy of wild life versus human suffering and the destruction of the ecosystem versus human survival. Set in the Sundarbans, a place where nature is harsh and vengeful making the struggle for human existence an intense task, the novel explores the plight of displaced people in their struggle for land and the constant fight for survival in a dangerous and fragile ecosystem which humans share with animals. Environmental groups zealously strive to protect the tiger habitats and as environmental issues …show more content…
The space of struggle between species conservation and the dispossession of man result in conflicts pitting man against nature, raising moral questions of environmental ethics, human interactions with nature, relations between animals and humans and the consideration of animal rights. The Hungry Tide explores what the Sundarbans mean to those who inhabit this fragile ecosystem after having fought and survived to lay claim to a portion of the earth as their home; the legends of the archipelago which create an ecological balance and individual struggles to find their