ECOCRITICISM IN THE NOVELS OF WILLIAM GOLDING USING RAIMON PANIKKAR’S THE COSMOTHEANDRIC EXPERIENCE.

Insights on William Golding enlighten the readers with his setting, the setting that the novels are all the more constructed. The construction (premise), having nature as the backdrop, brings the essence of oikology (landscape ecology). Cosmotheandric principle is not about anthropos (justifying man’s stand) or ecology. Deviating from the usual path of ecocriticism, Cosmotheandric principle locates human beings amongst other organisms and supports the unifying process of making cosmos, organisms and the Spiritual united. This Unifying process is an exalted process (procedure), which Panikkar describes to be the most difficult of all in the Open Horizon. According to Panikkar, Open Horizon (The biggest perspective) is a place where many horizons meet together to form a bigger horizon and the lofty position that the mind is encompassed to create the unifying process. The novels of Golding, have an Oikological set up, where the characters seems to have lost the biggest perspective (Open Horizon) and try to boast the unrighteousness (Anthropos perspective), i.e. justifying the act for survival of the human species. The characters in the novels exploit and deplete the natural environment and in turn exploit themselves in the process of asserting their stand (Anthropos principle). This paper deals with the exalted Open Horizon concept and the unifying Process under Cosmotheandric perspective that the characters seem to have lost in trying to assert their Anthropos principle and the wild attitude of human beings towards nature and vice versa due to the lack of the exalted unifying\\ process. Key Words—Cosmotheandric Perspective, Open Horizon, Unifying Process, Oikology, Ecumenic consciousness, historical consciousness, anthropos, macanthropos.