The declining environmental conditions in the present world and a much similar one in the novel provide an optimal space to study critical dystopia alongside ecocriticism. The critical dystopian enclaves in the novel closely encircle the facets of the current world’s disturbed environment, which is why the novel becomes appropriate to be analyzed as an ecological dystopia. Added, a critical dystopia offers the eutopian impulse-hope, which is concealed in traditional dystopias. Critical dystopia unlike the conventional dystopian literary genre discards the genre constraints the latter encounters and becomes laudable for endless critical examination. The article explores the perspectives of critical dystopia along with ecological speculations in order to deal with the socio-political and cultural aspects of the novel. The present article deals with an analysis of the eco-dystopian elements in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour.
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