An Ecocritical Approach to Fyodor Abramov's Story "What Do the Horses Cry About"

Abstract

Human's destructive behaviors toward the environment also harm animals. Fyodor Abramov's story, “What Do The Horses Cry About”. focuses on this issue. While this story reflects the world through the eyes of an animal, it reveals people's changing behaviors towards animals. The study tries to read the changing attitude of man toward nature in the modern age on the axis of Fyodor Abramov's story called “What Do The Horses Cry About”. On the other hand, it tries to understand how the relationship between the human and other living things has penetrated the fiction of the story. It shall be emphasized that transformation of nature by humans according to their wishes threatens the existence of the whole planet; and for a habitable world separation between human and non-human must be ended. Thus, the study aims to direct people to ecocriticism and contribute to growing more environmentally conscious individuals for a planet where ecological balance prevails. The first condition of a sustainable environment is human education. The people we will raise will shape the environment in which we will live in the future.