On Ecological Thinking in Silent Spring

Silent Spring is Rachel Carson's scientific documentation of the widespread harmful consequences of undistinguished pesticide use, in which her ecological thinking is visible in every corner. Therefore the following paper intends to analyze Carson's ecological thinking from the perspective of eco-criticism. The whole paper consists of three parts. The first part concerns the introduction of the author Rachel Carson, the work Silent Spring and the theory Eco-criticism applied in the paper. The second part is the mainbody, concerning the concrete analysis of Carson's ecological thinking by applying eco-criticism. Carson's ecological thinking can be summarized as the following four points: the first two points concern her criticism for anthropocentric values of system and over development of industrialization and science. The other two points concern her support for ecological holism and eco-morality. The last part arrives at the following conclusion that Carson's thinking has begun with the criticism for tangible harm of eco-crisis and has lifted to the intangible level of ideology. Besides, she attempts to solve the eco-crisis from its bottom- the ideology that causes such crisis. Besides, her diversified ecological thinking demonstrates her profound thinking and her deep concern for the eco-crisis.