Abstract:

Although today’s Echofeministists oppose that women are matched with nature in a lower hierarchical order of culture/natural distinction and that men represent culture in a higher hierarchical order than women, Milton reflects the culture/natural distinction in his poem ‘The Lost Paradise’ with a similarity between women and nature, and a substantial (essentialist) view that both women and nature are under ‘exclusion’, ‘solarity’ and ‘discrimination’ by the male-dominated society. Thus, in the context of the ecopheminist perspective, the Poetry of the Lost Paradise reveals that both the woman and nature are colonized, controlled and exploited in the context of the character of Havva in accordance with the benefits and interests of men. But the character of Havva, represented in the work, shows a feminist attitude against the male dominant authority and pressure and against the role of gender formed for himself. The purpose of this study is to illustrate John Milton's poem "The Lost Paradise" in the framework of the theory of ecofeminism. In the poem Milton the only female character in the poem, the creator of the paternal system of Havva, is controlled and controlled by the man God, the man angels, the man Jesus and the man Adam, and the nature is equal to the man's controlled and controlled level of man. In this context, we can see the two contradictions of culture/natural and male/woman expressed in some echofeminist.

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