Seuss's The Lorax states that “The Lorax is a cautionary tale, taking the specific form of a jeremiad and adapting it to the ideology of early environmentalism and the format of the book illustrated” (page 9). In “Narratives, Rhetorical Genres, and Environmental Conflict: Responses to Schwarze “Environmental Melodrama,” Steve Schwarze defines environmental melodrama as a feature of environmental narratives that “frames situations as confrontations between the virtuous and the evil, and encourages audiences to take sides into account in such confrontations in order to repair the moral order” (93). analyzing environmental literature, I always thought it had to follow this particular narrative to reach the public. Philosophically, the idea of morality is questionable because morality in many ways is a social construction to elevate certain perspectives to keep the existence of civilization in order. by the government of royalty or by a superior power that coincides with the religious dimension, which is very jeremiad in thought. One could argue that there is a gray area even in the Lorax's perspective of being solely concerned with him
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