Ecological Consciousness and the Human–Nature Relationship in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood: An Ecocritical Reading
Keywords:
Ecocriticism; Ecological Consciousness; Human–Nature Relationship; Environmental Ethics; Margaret AtwoodAbstract
Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood (2009) presents a dystopian world shaped by ecologicaldestruction, genetic engineering, climate instability, and corporate exploitation. This paper examines the changing human–nature relationship in the novel through an ecocritical perspective
References
➢ Atwood, M. (2009). The Year of the Flood. McClelland & Stewart.
➢ Ahmed, M. S., & Islam, M. K. (2025). Narrating the Anthropocene: An interdisciplinary study of environmental consciousness in Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood. International Journal of Environmental Sciences, 11(5), 1756–1766. https://doi.org/10.64252/n32jym48.


