ECOLOGICAL DANGER’S OUTCRY: ERNEST CALLENBACH’S ‘ECOTOPIA” and OYA BAYDAR’S ‘THE NIGHT OF CHILDREN WITH DOGS’

Abstract

The first known Ecological Utopia novel was written by Ernest Callenbach in 1975 in America. Ecological Dystopia, on the other hand, has already taken its place in many dystopian works, even if it had not been named yet, as dystopia takes the future as its subject. In dystopian fiction, since the problems that are and can be experienced in a country or in the world are discussed, the dystopian writer expresses the negativities that may be experienced in the future based on his/her own geography. Ecological dystopia writers make predictions about how environmental pollution, forest fires, natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods and erosion will affect humanity and the universe in the future. Since there is no other planet suitable for human life, the authors' predictions about the need to protect the planet we live in can be described as a cry of enlightenment. In this study, we will examine comparatively two works that deal with the desired ideal world and a world that faces the danger of extinction as a result of conscious or unconscious harm, within the scope of Sociological Criticism. Hoping that every dystopia can evolve into a utopia; even though Ernest Callenbach's "Ecotopia" and Oya Baydar's "The Night of Children with Dogs" seem to opposite each other, we will try to demonstrate with examples that both works carry the same ecological danger’s outcry. Keywords: utopia, dystopia, ecological outcry.