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The idea of ‘crisis’ suggests that in any individual’s life or perspective of
a situation, there is a central problem, to which there is a focus upon it
being solved. Within literature, ‘crisis’ is often seen as the central theme
to a plot. The text that presented ‘crisis’ to me the most throughout this
course, was actually the non-fiction work of Rachel Carson; Silent
Spring. Throughout this book, Carson provokes feelings over the way
human lives affect our air, land and water. She presents how we see war
as an idea of ‘crisis’ within literature or perhaps family breakdowns, but
there is one ‘crisis’ that remains potent and dominant; the way humans
damage the environment. This crisis is often seen in fiction, for example
Annihilation by Jeffery Vandermeer, but Carson illustrates how this
‘crisis’ extends to reality and has done throughout history.
Carson highlights through the use of substances like DDT, that we
have become immune to the fact that we can destroy our environment
and accept the long-term consequences upon ecosystems. She
emphasises the idea of ‘crisis’ through alluding to such human damage,
through the use of poetic language. This is illustrated by the opening of
her book; ‘A fable for tomorrow’. It is a short essay which conveys a
warning to using pesticides in our environment. Carson’s imagery of a
town, that would reflect future towns, if the use of these substances
continued, connotes how the fable acts as an insight into her narrative
stance of protecting the environment in the future.
The idea of ‘crisis’ suggests that in any individual’s life or perspective of
a situation, there is a central problem, to which there is a focus upon it
being solved. Within literature, ‘crisis’ is often seen as the central theme
to a plot. The text that presented ‘crisis’ to me the most throughout this
course, was actually the non-fiction work of Rachel Carson; Silent
Spring. Throughout this book, Carson provokes feelings over the way
human lives affect our air, land and water. She presents how we see war
as an idea of ‘crisis’ within literature or perhaps family breakdowns, but
there is one ‘crisis’ that remains potent and dominant; the way humans
damage the environment. This crisis is often seen in fiction, for example
Annihilation by Jeffery Vandermeer, but Carson illustrates how this
‘crisis’ extends to reality and has done throughout history.
Carson highlights through the use of substances like DDT, that we
have become immune to the fact that we can destroy our environment
and accept the long-term consequences upon ecosystems. She
emphasises the idea of ‘crisis’ through alluding to such human damage,
through the use of poetic language. This is illustrated by the opening of
her book; ‘A fable for tomorrow’. It is a short essay which conveys a
warning to using pesticides in our environment. Carson’s imagery of a
town, that would reflect future towns, if the use of these substances
continued, connotes how the fable acts as an insight into her narrative
stance of protecting the environment in the future.
