Oryx and Crake

Why I choose Margaret Atwood as my research topic. This is because of her significant history at an early age until present. The time-period is post-modernism. The author is Margaret Atwood. The public pays attention to her as a poet in the 1960s with her collections Double Persephone 1961, winner of the E.J. Pratt Medaled. Her poetry explored the distinctions between life and art and the normal with human creation. She used duality in the relationship between the opposites. But,…...

In Margaret Atwood's chilling novel “Oryx and Crake”, the readers are sent into a backwards spiral to a tragic catastrophic event while its full dimensions are slowly revealed, Jimmy is the apparent last human on Earth, making his way back to the Rejuven-Essence Compound for supplies. Oryx and Crake mobilizes a wide variety of futurological and ‘mythological’ speculations creating a horrifying, almost parallel universe. This novel portrays the extreme possible outcome of the world we live in today today where…...

In her novel Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood portrays an alternate reality of genetic engineering gone wrong in a dystopian society. However, as of late, her novel is inching closer and closer to a brutal reality. Although the novel is fictional it displays many parallels to our society. It has aspects that some groups in our society face today such as having an us against them mentality and being the last of a kind. As science and engineering progresses, the…...

In Margaret Atwood's chilling novel “Oryx and Crake”, the readers are sent into a backwards spiral to a tragic catastrophic event while its full dimensions are slowly revealed, Jimmy is the apparent last human on Earth, making his way back to the Rejuven-Essence Compound for supplies. Oryx and Crake mobilizes a wide variety of futurological and ‘mythological’ speculations creating a horrifying, almost parallel universe. This novel portrays the extreme possible outcome of the world we live in today today where…...

Forgive me if my thoughts are a bit jumbled on this one, there’s just too many things to say... Knowledge is power and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I know it’s cliche, but in an age of increasing technology and wealth inequality, it could not be more relevant. For when technology combines with the advance of capitalism and greed, this gap between the rich and the poor will only continue to grow. In the novel Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood explores…...

1.Oryx and Crake includes many details that seem futuristic, but are in fact already visible in our world. What parallels were you able to draw between the items in the world of the novel and those in your own? 2. Margaret Atwood coined many words and brand names while writing the novel. In what way has technology changed your vocabulary over the past five years? 3. The game "Extinctathon" emerges as a key component in the novel. Jimmy and Crake…...

Xenotransplantation is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another such as from pigs to humans ( Medical grafting). Such cells, tissues or organs are called xenografts or xenotransplants. The term allotransplantation refers to a same-species transplant. Human xenotransplantation offers a potential treatment for end-stage organ failure, a significant health problem in parts of the industrialized world and worldwide shortage of organs for clinical implantation. It also raises many novel medical, legal and ethical issues.…...

From Act I of 'The Duchess of Malfi' what impressions does the audience get of the court and how does Webster create this? Include a close analysis of a section of your choice.'The Duchess of Malfi' revolves around the predominate themes of the Jacobean period, during the reign of King James I. England faced a leader they did not trust as seen through their pessimistic literature work. The country had been previously known to be strong and powerful whereas it…...

AT&T Corporation can trace its root to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The original company was founded in 1885 by American Bell to create a network of long-distance communication nationwide with a commercially viable cost-structure. In 1899, the company in turn acquired the assets of American Bell in order to bypass Massachusetts corporate law that limited the capitalizations of corporations. By 1915, long distance telephone service reached San Francisco and transatlantic services began in 1927. AT&T Corporation eventually became…...

The fifteen year old girl, Lynda Mann, was found dead on the morning of November 22, 1983. She was located in a footpath in Narborough, England by a hospital porter making his way to work. She had been raped and strangled the night before, while headed to a friend’s house. Traces of semen showed that the murderer was a Group A secretor with a strong phosphoglucomutase (PHM) 1+ enzyme. These two factors are found in only 10 percent of the…...

Corruption is a word with many meanings and each of them depends on the specific social and political context in which it is used (Brown, 2006). Nowadays this phenomena is closely connected with political world and business sphere. In developing countries mainly economic field is attached by this problem. In the 1990s when those countries accepted official bribery and a huge misuse of public money the level of corruption has increased (Hwang, Jung & Lim, 2010). Lots of flaws that…...

Synopsis: 1. Oryx and Crake is a novel of human catastrophe and potential. At the center of the story is Snowman/Jimmy, who finds himself wearing nothing more than a bed sheet, sleeping in a tree, and facing starvation. The question is why? What events have caused Jimmy to become the Snowman and to find himself in such devastating circumstances? In a narrative that shifts in time, Atwood unravels Jimmy’s life before and after the moment we meet him, and in…...

In Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood illustrates a dystopian world where human beings and numerous hybrids organisms coexist. The setting is drawn in the future and Atwood foreshadows that some animals will go extinct and in order to fill up some gap in the food chain, human will have to fill the gap with modified organisms. Moreover, she suggests several interesting ideas about what she thinks might happen in the future. For example, she suggests that apocalypse will occur in…...