A Study Of Apocalyptic Fiction Genre With Reference To Science And Religion

Abstract

The literary discourse regarding climate change in the apocalyptic fictions derives its roots from the dominant religious myths that formulate the psychological structure and the actions thereupon of the literary characters in the fictional narratives. The binary opposition of prominent religious myths and the physical laws of science in the postmodern world create the flux between faith and rationality.  The age of Anthropocene is a major factor in creating the atmosphere of anxiety and despair that leads the human civilization into the world of apocalypses and this apocalyptic world is not a distant future and therefore is not fictional but it is present in the anthropocentric world of the contemporary geological age. Hence, the discourse of the apocalyptic fiction becomes essential to be assessed, which the paper will focus, in terms of the construction of a narrative which includes the confluence of science and religion and the inevitability of climate crisis. The pervasive sense of fear and shifting ideological, as well as philosophical conformities in the apocalyptic world, ultimately reflect the importunity to prevent anyhow the mass extinction of human survival and the research paper engages itself in the deconstruction of the same discourse.