• R. Sureshrajan

Environmental issues and concerns have been emerging since late nineties but not yet achieved its purpose. Hence enumerable writers, social activists, botanists and theorists imbued the environmental crisis through various forms to safeguard the nature for future generation as well as its importance. The world of literature throngs with works beauty and power of nature. However the concern for ecology and the continuous misuses of our environmental poses on humanity have only recently caught the attention of the writers. It is this sense of concern and itself reflection in literature that have given rise to branch of literary theory called Eco-criticism. It has got few epistemological theoretical fields of studies, which critically approach a work. In which anthropomorphism is one such field which apparently influenced by post-structuralism that strongly connected with Pathetic fallacy introduced by John Ruskin which evolved in the fall of eighteenth century, the prime idea of these two isms is, criticizing attribution of human characteristics to the non-living and living objects in the field of Eco-criticism. This theoretical study persistently makes the scathing comments on human assumptions. Though it has got its root in deeply in classical age and romantic age but the fundamental ideas differ from the each other in dealing the nature in the field of nature and environmental studies. Therefore a reader can find how The Tree Speaks re-interpreted in line with anthropomorphism and pathetic fallacy in this article.

Eco-criticism, Anthropomorphism, Pathetic fallacy, unanimated and animated objects and Post-structuralism

"Pathetic fallacy in C. Rajagopalachari’s The Tree Speaks: An Ecological Reading", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.120-123, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAA06030.pdf

"Pathetic fallacy in C. Rajagopalachari’s The Tree Speaks: An Ecological Reading", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp120-123, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAA06030.pdf