Eve An Ecocentric: An Ecofeminist Study of the Short Story Eve’s Diary by Mark Twain

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the stances of ecofeminism in Eve’s Diary. This study is important to give awareness to the masses as the nature is facing extreme hazards due to man’s disrupting efforts to serve him. The data is collected by careful reading, re-reading, note taking, classifying, and reducing the text of the short story for the qualitative analysis by focusing on the themes of ecofeminism. The study is wrapped around a blended theoretical frame by taking strands of ecocentricism by Val Plumwood (2002) and Karen Joyce Warren (1987). The analysis reveals that Eve is an ecocentric woman as she maintains a strong bond with nature, its objects and with animals. It is recommended to explore females’ voices in literature as they are taking steps to preserve nature and to empower themselves simultaneously, and to expose the ways through which nature and female are exploited of their rights in a male oriented society.