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Factory Farming or Organic Farming: An Issue of Animal Cruelty in A Thousand Acres
WU Li-min, ZHOU Xin
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2022.09.004
School of English for International Business, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China School of Foreign Languages, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China
Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres is one of her most famous and most studied works. Among several conflicts across the novel, one is often unnoticed. That is the conflict between factory farming and organic farming, represented respectively by Ginny’s father and husband, and by Ginny’s lover and the neighbor. Through a depiction of the expansion of factory farming and the failure of organic farming in the novel, Smiley exposes animal cruelty in factory farming, and attaches importance to animal welfare and human-animal relationship.
factory farming, organic farming, animal cruelty, human-animal relationship
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, September 2022, Vol. 12, No. 9, 896-900
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