The inescapability of speciesism : the moral consideration of animals in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

This thesis will then look at how extending equal moral consideration to animals challenges the anthropocentric view of speciesism, which is used to justify harm done towards animals. It will explore how the man and animal binary is constructed in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2005) and Yann Marte...

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Main Author: Francisco, Kimberly Ashleigh
Other Authors: Sim Wai Chew
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65640
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:This thesis will then look at how extending equal moral consideration to animals challenges the anthropocentric view of speciesism, which is used to justify harm done towards animals. It will explore how the man and animal binary is constructed in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2005) and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi (2012) using an ecocritical lens.