Abstract:
To describe the finest creation of the creator that is
nature and woman, who are the live form of being domestic, pious, pure, kind,
gentle, calm, graceful, moral, patient, simple and beautiful. Nature is
feminised as it posses the same qualities as woman. That is why we find the
great poets of romantic era compare the beauty of nature as enormous as the
presence of woman, the voice of woman resembled as symphony of nature. Nature
is like a woman who enjoys disguising herself but stands beside at the hard
times and becomes the social and the moral support as well. Before the world
was christened as society and cosmos was the image of the organism, it’s not
surprising but fact, that most people who were connected with their daily lives
for their existence, the earth was seen as female as the two faces of same
coin, one the passive and nurturing mother other wild and uncontrollable
because she is the combination of calm polite and being woman with bit of
disaster. Thus the earth, the giver, the supporter of life was symbolized by
woman as she is the life giver. Human life begins within woman as only she has
the grace and capacity to give birth to human world, she almost faces mortal
end to give birth to new life as the seed in the soil dies to bring forth the
life as sapling, woman are the architects of the society as it was described by
“William Golding” whatever you give a woman she will make greater as a sown
seed begins a forest in nature.
Key
words
Nature: woman, Environment: Society, Living planet: New
life, Pollution: Harassment. God, Equal, battle, Earth, Sacrifice, Survival,
Mentality.
Introduction
Woman has been equated
with nature from time immemorial. She, like nature, is considered to possess
the qualities of kindness and nurture as that of a woman or mother. Hence, the
Romantic poets presented nature as beautiful and supportive of human life. The
voice of the woman was compared to the symphony of nature. At the beginning of
society, when humans lived in close connection with nature and depend on nature
for their daily needs, Earth was the mother to them. As a seed that tears open
its coat to give birth to a tree and thence a forest, a woman has the grace and
capacity and strength to give birth to a new life and bring in changes in the
society at the cost of her life. But it is also true that there is a fierce side
to the woman as to nature in its forceful manifestations as storms and thunder.
This paper attempts to focus on the similarities between nature as a feminine
principle and woman as a procreative force in human society.
Nature: Woman
Nature and woman are the identical twins
created by god, nature being a beautiful creation need someone to enjoy it or
rule over it, in biblical context it is said that god created the whole
creation but was yet incomplete god created woman from the man and he fulfilled
his quest and rested on seventh day by this above mythological end we can
analyse how woman is given importance, woman during the early vedic period
enjoyed equal status with men in all aspects of life. Rig vedic verses suggest
that woman married at the mature age and were probably free to select their own
husbands in a practice called Swayamwar or live in relationship called
gandharva marriage.
As the introduction caries the creation and
the creator now let us know modifier who is none other than man, human being
irrespective of gender.
Environment:
Society
Environment
is the modified version of nature, as nature is created naturally where as
environment is modified artificially as for the human demand and comfort its
modified naturally to peace the eye of human and settle in it as they wish to.
In contrast to the natural environment is the built environment. In such areas
where man has fundamentally transformed an environment, landscapes such as
urban settings and agricultural land conversion, the natural environment is
greatly modified into a simplified human environment. Every domain caries some
sort of restrictions rules and regulations as the society is compelled.
Therefore even nature caries some vision to be an environment. Woman is created
equally as the man, in fact much more qualities which are above mans mind but
the man pulled out the woman and put her in a cage called society, which has
many bars and battles like restrictions, tradition
for ages, hence she is suppressed under the pressure and taken a shape of being
adjusted for every single aspect. As she thinks priorly of society rather than
satisfying herself,
this quality of her is inbuilt which cannot be dismantled, as woman starts her
journey as daughter moulds herself as her father wishes her to be, later as
wife she moulds as for her husband and then as a mother she moulds herself for
the happiness of her children. That is how both nature and woman face inner
struggle to change according to circumstances.
Living
planet: New life
Nature
is the unanimous answer for multiplying lives and living things. You sow a seed
it gives you tree, if you water a tree it gives you fruit, and when you enjoy
the fruit you again get a seed for another new life to begin, in the same
manner “William Golding” expresses about the woman and her capability “if you
give her a sperm she’ll give you a baby, if you give her a house she’ll give
you home, if you give her groceries she’ll give you a meal ,if you give her a
smile she’ll give her heart” she makes it greater what ever is given to her and
so as nature. In whole of our ‘milky way’ galaxy earth is identified as living
planet as it has the most important component that is water. Geographically
earth contains 3/4th part of water and 1/4th of land, any
creation to survive, need water to continue its survival. Every animal, every
plant, every creature survives on earth for certain time period and multiplies
into enormous, earth being a planet of life supports every living creature, plant
and organism to find its way home and grow vast and so as woman. Woman begins
herself as daughter, wife, mother and so on. Her journey goes step by step and
gives out the love in form of a baby to be a mother, she is the only social
minded one who gives life to the human world and becomes a life giver. She
bares every single pain for the comfort of the upcoming, either socially or
biologically woman takes image of life giver after nature.
Pollution:
Harassment
World
is the place which can be mentioned as the beautiful part of creation but when
the world takes the new formation of being an environment to satisfy the man’s
needs and comfort, it has to undergo a destruction which is named as pollution.
Earth, the living planet is loosing its stamina of being fresh and natural as
it undergoes the process of pollution and destroy its purity. Pollution
contributes to the harmful environment result in adverse affect of living
beings. It is a global Issue, it is one of the major problem. Pollution is the
process that makes the nature’s resource unsafe, it is not only the human who
are affected from this polluted environment but every creature. It makes
environment dirty and unhealthy which also includes defected child birth and
increase in mortality rate. Pollution disturbs our eco system and balance in
the environment. Woman also faces pollution in the form of ‘harassment’ this
term is not enough to describe the pain what she faces in the society as an
individual without any support given. Woman is loosing her importance due to
the presence of the animal minded humans. Even today woman is bind up in the
society due to continuous rape attempts on girl child too, different kinds of
harassment are faced by woman such as rape, marital rape, slavery and house
arrest she is not only facing the physical torture but also mental. Society has
to support the woman to live her life independently and brave enough to face
the world. Therefore nature should also be maintained pollution free.
Nature
as woman
By now we have known many facts and
similarities of Nature and woman but “Nature as woman” itself is a fabulous
expression as we know in many historical writings it is described that Nature
is feminised, especially in India Nature is considered pious, every part of
Nature is named after many Goddesses and worshipped. Rivers like Ganga, Kaveri,
Krishna, Godavari, Tungabadra etc., are respected and worshiped as a way for
repentance, to wash out their sins and begin a new life. Trees such as Neem and
banyan, plants like Tulasi and also worshipped as female Gods. Nature’s beauty
is described with feminised words and womanic beauty. As per the Hindu
tradition and mythology since ages people worshipped Goddesses in Nature and
offered prayers to them. Its beauty is explained that the rivers flow as the
woman walk, beauty hinders in them and Earth is called Mother Earth as it takes
care of every living and feeds as Mother feeds the infant. Mother is the one who
loves without any expectation such a love is pure and pious, we find this
Mother love in Nature towards us .
Conclusion
To get a better world and better
life we need to save the nature and respect it for surviving us every single
day and so the woman. To extend the life on earth plants need to be planted and
watered and share the love and affection to the co-living, to keep a better
environment everyone in society need to be treated equally with all concern as
we show on our self hence nature and woman play very prominent role in creation
that is how creator shows the same grace on them. Both nature and woman being
the two sides of same coin face the same and react the same that is why it is
said “Nature as Woman”.
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J. Amyot, Œuvres morales, p. 181
[6] Quotes from William Golding.
