Volume : VIII, Issue : XI, November - 2018

Fighting Against Machine: A Critical Study of Edward Abbey's The Brave Cowboy

K. Vaideki, Dr. Sp. Shanthi

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 This paper attempts to demonstrate why and how some of the characters in Edward Abbey’s The Brave Cowboy confront their rival, the machine. It also traces different aspects of nature that appear in the novel. The vultures, wilderness, and rivers all reinforce the experience of nature in their special form. And endangered by the advancing machine, they are worth defending. Yet, on another level these components of nature may also portray the conceptions of environmentalism, rebellion, anarchism, and freedom, notions that are accentuated by the characters in the novel. Abbey’s outrage towards the power of modern society is presented in novel will deal with how the novel present different parts of the machine. The machine is signified in diverse ways in the novel, The Brave Cowboy

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Fighting Against Machine: A Critical Study of Edward Abbey's The Brave Cowboy , K. Vaideki, Dr. SP. Shanthi , INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-11 | November-2018

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