Scott Russell Sanders' The Engineer of Beasts as a Paraenesis to Ecological Crisis

In this study, American writer Scott Russell Sanders’ (1945-) apocalyptic novel The Engineer of Beasts (1988) is studied through the lens of ecocritical criticism. In his work, Sanders reflects the aftermaths of industrialization and climate crisis. He explicates the reasons as well as the results of environmental pollution and harm done to nature. In the novel, the future of humanity is threatened by the ongoing ecological problems and at the end an apocalypse actualizes. People are urged to live in domed cities where only machine animals exist. A child of thirteen, Mooch desires to bring back the real animals into daily life. In literature, related to ecological ideology, apocalyptic genre elaborates on ecological disasters and shows the end of the world, making feel people sorry and responsible for nature. The novel is an apocalyptic one and in it Sanders warns humanity about the dangerous potentials of crimes and injustice done against nature. He gives his messages via a child heroine; thus, the work is a children’s/juvenile novel and the writer aims to grow up an environmentally conscious generation for the future of the world. He also notifies the adults to be more conscientious, sensitive and compassionate toward nature, which includes every living and non-living creature.