An Obligation to Sustain: An Eco Justice Reading of Stirling Davenport’s “Masks”

Abstract

Right from the time immemorial, the equation between the creations have been in equilibrium. The flora and the fauna have always adhered to the environment and its modules. It has always been the human race that has gone against the laws of nature thereby creating chaos beyond repair. The factor of time is a key for healing. The naturally occurring phenomena have adhered to time and healed with respect to it. Whereas the hazards and perils created by human beings have trespassed the limitations of time required to heal. The so-called scientific developments have catered only to the selfish luxuries of human kind and thereby withholding the very essence and necessity of life. The avarice and greed of the wealthy has altered the naturally occurring seasonal change and has robbed the joy of spring, the nourishments of shower, magic of summer and the miracles of winter. This paper aims to establish eco justice, to maintain and sustain naturally occurring climatic changes while reading Stirling Davenport’s “Masks” through the lens of Eco-Justice.