Rumination of Ecological Ethics in Green Hills of Africa: Hemingway’s Instrumentalized Ego and the Ecologist Val Plumwood’s Ecological Ego (Published)
This paper tends to analyze human instrumental intentionality in Earnest Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa in accordance with Australian ecologist, Val Plumwood’s argument over “instrumentalized ego.” By probing into Hemingway’s African hunting memoir defined as ecological literary demonstration, the following content will be positioned with three orientations: first, criticizing human instrumentalized intention relating to egoism; second, examining how human beings are bound with profit intention with fictitious anthropocentric attitude toward other creatures on earth; third, exploring possible solutions to cope with human-centered crisis for maintaining amicable correlation between humans and nonhumans in ecological system.
Szu-Han Wang (2022) Rumination of Ecological Ethics in Green Hills of Africa: Hemingway’s Instrumentalized Ego and the Ecologist Val Plumwood’s Ecological Ego, European Journal of English Language and Literature Studies, Vol.10, No.9, pp.36-48
Keywords: Hemingway, ecological ego, ecological ethics, instrumentalized ego, val plumwood
Wives in Search of Intimacy: The Silent Crisis of the American Woman in Modern Short Story (Published)
ABSTRACT: The aim of this article is to examine the sufferings of women triggered by the absence of intimacy in two short stories, Kay Boyle’s ‘Astronomer’s Wife’ and Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Cat in the Rain’. The exploration of the stories show how the authors portray women’s fight to express their individuality. The article also reveals how women are pitiable slaves of unemotional and distant relationships. Their essential loneliness and their search for fulfilment are revealed. In an essential struggle, the authors show women meeting challenges, disappointment and disillusionment. Moreover, the article demonstrates how, in order to adapt with these complications, the examined female characters evidently exercise unconscious protective mechanisms to prevent themselves from connecting with their vicious reality and instinctual desires.
Keywords: Astronomer’s wife, Cat in the Rain, Hemingway, Intimacy, Kay Boyle