THE BEGINNING OF THE END: AN ECOCRITICISM ANALYSIS ON CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS’ THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LAST BATTLE (Awal sebuah Akhir: Sebuah Analisa Ekokritisisme Pada Novel The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle Karya Clive Staples Lewis)

Abstract

This article deals with environmental issues represented in C.S Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle, 1956. There are some environmental issues which are represented clearly in The Last Battle. 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 research use Ecocriticism theory by Greg Garrard to analyze the problems. The result of this thesis proves that the author has certain purposes in writing his novel. Firstly, give representation about environmental damage caused by exploitation. Second, warns people using the representation of natural disaster if people does not care of the nature. Last, spreads the messages from holy Bible by narrated the apocalypse in Narnia that similar with the holy Bible describing about it.