Environmental issues and their psychological impact on the main characters in John Lanchester's The Wall (2019)

• Main Author: Muhlisin, Iqbatul
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: 050204 Environmental Impact Assessment; 059999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; 160802 Environmental Sociology; 200503 British and Irish Literature; 200525 Literary Theory; Akan; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://etheses.uin-malang.ac.id/39342/; http://etheses.uin-malang.ac.id/39342/1/18320003.pdf

ENGLISH: Over the last few decades, natural conditions are very dangerous and very bad. However, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has reported that global warming on earth will destroy the ice sheet causing flooding in various parts of the world. This study investigates environmental issues and reveals their impact on the main character depicted in the novel entitled The Wall. This study applies an ecocriticism theory (Garrard, 2004) to explain environmental issues and uses psychotherapeutic theory (Albercth, 2011) to explain the impact of the environmental issues on the main characters’ psychology in the novel. The results show that the environmental issues contained in this novel cover five aspects from Garrard's perspective, namely Pollution, Dwelling, Apocalypse, Animal and Earth. In the scope of pollution, there are two types of pollution described in the novel: water pollution and light pollution. Then in the scope of dwelling, there are two environmental issues: hunger and the drowning of land. The apocalypse scope, the researchers found two environmental issues: global warming and changing weather. In the animal context, animals are used as a source of food by the main character in the novel. And the last is Earth, the environmental issues contained in the novel include a terrible place in the future, which causes people to not want to have children. In addition, environmental issues affect the main character's psychology, which can be analyzed using a psychotherapeutic theory consisting of eco-anxiety and solastalgia. The main character experiences solastalgia syndrome by imagining good natural conditions. Meanwhile, in eco-anxiety, the main character worries about the current environmental issues. INDONESIA: Beberapa dekade terakhir, kondisi alam sangat berbahaya dan sangat buruk. Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) telah melaporkan bahwa pemanasan global di bumi akan menghancurkan lapisan es yang menyebabkan banjir di berbagai wilayah dunia. Penelitian ini bertujuan ...