Navigating ethical dilemmas and embracing emotional responses: Noria’s agonising moral choices in Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
The contemporary era’s climate fluctuations have wrought profound consequences on both the planet and its inhabitants, prompting a surge in climate literature that underscores the societal and environmental implications of climate change while instilling a sense of accountability. This study conduct...
| Main Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2024
|
| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25429/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25429/1/TD%2010.pdf |
| _version_ | 1848816356242227200 |
|---|---|
| author | Wei, Liuna Ida Baizura Bahar, Zainor Izat Zainal, |
| author_facet | Wei, Liuna Ida Baizura Bahar, Zainor Izat Zainal, |
| author_sort | Wei, Liuna |
| building | UKM Institutional Repository |
| collection | Online Access |
| description | The contemporary era’s climate fluctuations have wrought profound consequences on both the planet and its inhabitants, prompting a surge in climate literature that underscores the societal and environmental implications of climate change while instilling a sense of accountability. This study conducts a textual analysis of Memory of Water (2014), a novel by the Finnish author Emmi Itäranta (b. 1976), to examine how the protagonist, Noria, faces ethical dilemmas and makes ethical choices during a climate crisis. Utilising the framework of ethical choices conceptualised by the American philosopher Martha Nussbaum, the study explores the ethical dilemmas faced by Noria and the subsequent ethical decisions she makes following emotional turmoil. As Nussbaum points out, emotional responses generate compassionate and just ethical choices while facing ethical dilemmas. While discovering the ethical dilemmas triggered by climate change, this study also found that Nora’s emotional responses have indeed helped her make ethical decisions, upholding goodness and morality in balancing the needs of the ecosystem and the well-being of humankind. |
| first_indexed | 2025-11-15T01:04:34Z |
| format | Article |
| id | oai:generic.eprints.org:25429 |
| institution | Universiti Kebangasaan Malaysia |
| institution_category | Local University |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2025-11-15T01:04:34Z |
| publishDate | 2024 |
| publisher | Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia |
| recordtype | eprints |
| repository_type | Digital Repository |
| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:254292025-06-25T10:03:45Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25429/ Navigating ethical dilemmas and embracing emotional responses: Noria’s agonising moral choices in Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta Wei, Liuna Ida Baizura Bahar, Zainor Izat Zainal, The contemporary era’s climate fluctuations have wrought profound consequences on both the planet and its inhabitants, prompting a surge in climate literature that underscores the societal and environmental implications of climate change while instilling a sense of accountability. This study conducts a textual analysis of Memory of Water (2014), a novel by the Finnish author Emmi Itäranta (b. 1976), to examine how the protagonist, Noria, faces ethical dilemmas and makes ethical choices during a climate crisis. Utilising the framework of ethical choices conceptualised by the American philosopher Martha Nussbaum, the study explores the ethical dilemmas faced by Noria and the subsequent ethical decisions she makes following emotional turmoil. As Nussbaum points out, emotional responses generate compassionate and just ethical choices while facing ethical dilemmas. While discovering the ethical dilemmas triggered by climate change, this study also found that Nora’s emotional responses have indeed helped her make ethical decisions, upholding goodness and morality in balancing the needs of the ecosystem and the well-being of humankind. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2024 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25429/1/TD%2010.pdf Wei, Liuna and Ida Baizura Bahar, and Zainor Izat Zainal, (2024) Navigating ethical dilemmas and embracing emotional responses: Noria’s agonising moral choices in Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 30 (4). pp. 129-141. ISSN 0128-5157 https://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1778 |
| spellingShingle | Wei, Liuna Ida Baizura Bahar, Zainor Izat Zainal, Navigating ethical dilemmas and embracing emotional responses: Noria’s agonising moral choices in Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta |
| title | Navigating ethical dilemmas and embracing emotional responses: Noria’s agonising moral choices in Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta |
| title_full | Navigating ethical dilemmas and embracing emotional responses: Noria’s agonising moral choices in Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta |
| title_fullStr | Navigating ethical dilemmas and embracing emotional responses: Noria’s agonising moral choices in Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta |
| title_full_unstemmed | Navigating ethical dilemmas and embracing emotional responses: Noria’s agonising moral choices in Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta |
| title_short | Navigating ethical dilemmas and embracing emotional responses: Noria’s agonising moral choices in Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta |
| title_sort | navigating ethical dilemmas and embracing emotional responses: noria’s agonising moral choices in memory of water by emmi itäranta |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25429/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25429/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25429/1/TD%2010.pdf |