Abstract:

Literature can act as a mediator in educating readers on environmental issues, raising awareness, and inspiring them to take action. In the context of how literature can be used to address environmental issues, ecocriticism emphasizes the ways that literary works can offer insights into the interaction between humans and the environment. Each of the eco-philosophies that have emerged in line with ecocriticism can provide a distinct ecocritical approach and one of them is the deep ecology movement. This present study investigates the picture book, The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss and its Turkish translation within the framework of deep ecology. How ecological perspective is depicted in The Lorax and how those ecological concerns are rendered in its Turkish translation are questioned with a descriptive analysis. The findings show that deep ecology perspective is obvious in The Lorax, and this standpoint is mirrored in the translation as well. Deep ecology stance is emphasized in both works with the usage of literary devices such as repetition, rhyming, hyperbole, and made-up words. It is considered that research on environmentalist books and especially on their translations, which make the dissemination of knowledge and awareness of environmental issues possible, can play a significant role in creating environmentfriendly societies.

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