| dc.description.abstract | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle was written by Clive Staples Lewis in
1956. It is the last novel in The Chronicles of Narnia series. In the last battle, lewis
brings The Chronicles of Narnia to an end. Narnia has experienced a long period of
peace. But, suddenly this condition change when an ape named Shift manipulates the
Narnians using lion skin to present Aslan. Shift orders the Talking Beasts to work as
slave for the Calormenes, and to cut down Talking Trees for lumber. In the end of
story, the real Aslan comes to Narnia and calls Father Time to make natural disaster
in Narnia world. So, there are some environmental issues which are represented
clearly in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle.
I use Ecocriticism theory by Greg Garrard to analyze the problems that occur from
the story of the novel. There are three problems to discuss in this research. The first is
about representation and treatment to the nature and the animals. The second is about
natural disaster which make Narnian world destroyed. The last is about ideological
position of the author.
The result of this research show environmental issues which appear in the novel such
as, huge deforestation in Narnian forest, exploitation toward animals, and the
apocalypse. Clive Staples Lewis as the author has ideologies that give influences to
his literary work. Lewis criticizes the environmental issues through the story in his
novel with the representation of exploitation and natural disaster. | en_US |
