LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 9 September 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

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The Role of Nature in Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It In The Bush

Hamid Farahmandian (Universiti Putra Malaysia)
Shima Ehsaninia (Payam Noor University of Urmia-Iran)

Abstract

The word nature has the ability to cover numerous concepts like landscape, geography, climate, flora and fauna which are thoroughly tangible in Canadian literary works especially in Susanna Moodle’s Roughing It in the Bush. Susanna, with the experience of emigration from England into new land (Canada) by the great expectations in mind of the new life, has obtained the required ability to write about the deep effect of nature in the people; however, she concluded all those colourful dreams and the new land are all in fake and counterfeit.

In Roughing It in the Bush, Moodie refutes the common Romantic assumption that living in a wilderness area, far from the corruption of cities, makes a person both spiritually and morally stronger. Although upon her arrival she delights in Canada's natural beauty, her enthusiasm later wanes as she becomes increasingly disillusioned with nature as a source of moral and spiritual rejuvenation. She depicts nature, instead, as “red in tooth and claw,” offering little security to the middle-class female immigrant like herself, who is constantly fearful of the known and unknown dangers of the woods.

Moodie refers to the bush as a “green prison,” a description that surely expressed the thoughts of many other women immigrants. Living closer to nature fails to offer the immigrant a heightened experience of the sublime, as described by such Romantic poets as Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley; instead, the middle-class woman is confronted with the sordid actuality of daily life in the backwoods, a reality that seems impossible to change.

Key Words: Nature, Ecocriticism, Canada scenery, Bush Introduction

The word nature in the title of my article has the ability to cover numerous concepts like landscape, geography, climate, flora and fauna which are thoroughly tangible in Canadian literary works especially in Susanna Moodie’s ‘Roughing it in the Bush’. She, with the experience of emigration from England into new land (Canada) with great expectations in mind of the new life, has obtained the required ability to write about the deep effect of nature in the people. However, she concluded that all those colourful dreams and the new land were all in fake and counterfeit.

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Hamid Farahmandian (Corresponding Author)
Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication
University Putra Malaysia
FarahmadnianH@gmail.com

Shima Ehsaninia
Payam Noor Unviersity, Urmia, Iran
EhsaniniaS@gmail.com
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