Has Humanity Systematically Set About Sabotaging the Natural World it Claims to Enshrine: Unpacking an Oxymoron, 'Kindness' and 'Cruelty' in George Saunders's Dark Comic Animal Fable, Fox 8

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Merry baghwar

Animal, Human beings, Brutality, Empathy, Irony, Jeopardy, Dark comic fable.

This paper intends to dredge into the sad reality of the two different worlds, the human world and second, the world of animals. By the end of this research, one can truly examine and realize how humanity is methodically setting forth to destroy the natural world that all cherish. No wonder the short story of Saunders Fox 8 is called a dark honorific animal fable. The unpacking of the oxymoron, ‘kindnesses and ‘cruelty’ both are well balanced in the story narrated and experienced by Fox 8. The fable outburst the brutality, irony, sarcasm, and dark sense of humor by George Saunders. Saunders aims to enlighten and awaken the anguish, pang, and misery of those unspeakable. The primary aim of the research is to throw light upon the significant factors that every human should inculcate, starting from responsibility, and kindness, to portray the destructive and massive effects of cruelty. This is where the question arises, what if animals could speak, there would indeed be peace, mutual understanding, and harmony in the world. For instance, the protagonist, Fox 8, is depicted as kind and selfless which are worthy of praise in the readers' view. Saunders has vividly illustrated in the book Fox 8 so that an amateur can visualize and empathize with the unspeakable. After the reader completes reading and examining this particular piece by Saunders, one would certainly wish not to be a human in the next birth. Chelra Cardinal, an artist, wishes in her next life, if things are up to her, she would wish to be a fox.

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Merry baghwar (November-2023). Has Humanity Systematically Set About Sabotaging the Natural World it Claims to Enshrine: Unpacking an Oxymoron, 'Kindness' and 'Cruelty' in George Saunders's Dark Comic Animal Fable, Fox 8. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 8(11), d740-d744. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2311382.pdf

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