On With Shobeyro: An Ecocritical Approach

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Though nature and environment are inseparable and inevitable parts of human life, they have most usually been merely considered as marginal setting to story-writing and critic. This article explores the role and function of nature in Mahmoud Dowlat Abaadi's With Shobeyro in the framework of ecocriticism and the effect of the characters' relationship with wild nature. In this short story, Dowlat Abaadi stays away from his typical rural setting; relying instead on more natural environments such as seaside and coastal area.  Hence, the dark and bright sides of nature which are more palpable in natural environment becomes the focus of attention in analyzing this obscure short story. From ecocritical perspective, on the one hand, characters in "With shobeyro" come to self-realization as a result of their confrontation with wilderness and at the same time they purge both their body and mind through benevolence of the sea.

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