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Clash of Humans and Animals: A comparative Ecocritical Reading of Ruskin Bond’s Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright and H.H. Munro’s The Interlopers

Author(s) Dr. Rajeep Kumar Tirkey
Country India
Abstract The present research paper is a comparative ecocritical reading of Ruskin Bond’s “Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright” and H. H. Munro’s The Interlopers.” This paper argues that Bond’s postcolonial- ecocritical realism and Munro’s imperial-satirical irony intersect in their common critique of human exploitation of nature. Both these stories present tense clashes between humans and animals- Villagers confronting a tiger in the Himalayan foothills and Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym in Eastern European woodland. Though, both works come from entirely two different worlds : first a postcolonial lens on India’s rural environmental struggle and the other a sharp Edwardian satire of imperial Balkan tensions. This paper critically analyzes how both stories examine geographical dispute, false impression of human supremacy and nature’s paradoxical inversion by incorporating postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. The paper shows that whereas Rusking Bond brings to light the fragility or helplessness of both humans and animals in the midst of ecological tension and habitat encroachment, H.H Munro emphasizes uselessness of human hostility through forest’s impartial power. By a comparative study of these two short stories, the present paper draws attention to common obsession with nature and suggests that these two short stories side by side or collectively enhance ecocritical and postcolonial perspectives of Indian English literary studies.
Keywords Ecocritical, postcolonial realism, exploitation of nature, short story, humans, animals, Indian literature
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 8, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On 2026-08-16
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i04.85822
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