The Peril of Climate Change in Jenny Offill's Weather (2020)

Abstract

The paper demonstrates the peril of climate change as represented in Jenny Offill's Weather (2020). The paper sheds light on one of the environmental troubles that we are encountering at present – climate change. The paper highlights how the environment controls one's life. The analysis is conducted within the scope of ecocriticism. Demonstrating how the confabulation between literature and the environment might ardently modify society's behaviour to decrease the environmental problems that have outspread today is the main purpose of this study. The paper is significant as it pilots readers to ponder the practices of society in dealing with nature. The paper shows how Offill's Weather (2020) calls people to be responsible to other human beings and to the land. With a focus on the novel, this paper appraises three main themes that appear in Weather (2020). The themes concern the anthropocentric attitudes towards nature, the theme of determinism, and the repercussions of climate change on psychological well-being. The paper concludes that there are severe consequences of climate change if appropriate procedures are not taken. As an environmental novel, Offill's Weather (2020) delves into the ecological, political, economic, and technological grounds for climate change. The paper draws on many theories, including capitalism, existentialism, determinism, and climate anxiety. This paper opens new horizons for a forthcoming investigation in this regard.