Ecocentrism in Michael Punke’s The Revenant: a novel of revenge

The research’s aim is to find out the environmental issues which appear in Michael Punke’s novel, The Revenant: A Novel Of Revenge, by analyzing the relationship between the main character, Hugh Glass, with the environment and the effects from the relationship. This research applies descriptive method. The researcher uses ecocriticism theory and ecocentrism which is the branch from the theory as the tool to analyze the data and to answer the research questions. The novel describes the relationship of the nature with the main character, Hugh Glass. The nature, in this book is in the form of the forest and the animals, which the main character thinks that it can provide what Hugh Glass needs. As a frontier, he thinks that nature is an object to be explored. He cuts down some trees and shoots various animals to fulfill what he needs. The deeds bring him to suffer the major impact in his life and the nature.The results of the research are the relationship between human and the environment is disadvantageous to each other and imbalance because humans tend to be destructive to the environment without any intentions to protect the environment and the effect of the relationship is the damage to the environment and Hugh Glass gets injured.