Essays on Oryx and Crake

Perception of Sexual Behavior in Society Sex, it’s something many people don’t exactly feel comfortable taking about yet it’s seen everywhere in advertisement, from todays most popular music to magazines with sexy pictures and sex advice, in our society, “sex sells”. Yet sex isn’t openly talked about when it should be, and has a negative stigma linked with it. Sex can be just sex or a meaningful bond, but it seems casual sexual relationships are common forms of sexual encounters,…

At the heart of Atwood’s dystopian novels lies the concept of control and power. How far would you agree with this reading of the novels? In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones (Sufi proverb: Epigraph to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’) Margaret Atwood’s dystopian literature, described by herself as ‘speculative fiction’ , provides insight into the concept of power and control found within totalitarian regimes, where those in authority attempt to govern the natural rhythms…

Throughout the novel Oryx and Crake, Atwood accentuates how individuals' humanistic thinking will mitigate by scientific progress that is caused by perverse uses of scientific power and knowledge. Many scientists today rely on advanced biological science and genetic experiments, which allows them to exercise their abuse of nature. They try to find new technological innovations and biological solutions that can either award them with materialistic gains or fame. However, they are not able to understand the immoral conduct of their…

As society and science progresses, many ethical issues continue to arise. Some may think that certain ways of gaining knowledge may be unethical, or even cruel, while others may think that any way of obtaining knowledge is acceptable in the name of science and progress. The novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood is a work of speculative fiction that immerses its readers into a world where a lot of immoral and cruel actions are considered the norm: all in…

In Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, a dystopian futuristic society is envisioned and our world as we know it is crumbling into ruin. Oryx and Crake presents a society in which individuals have lost all their sense of social ethics. The main forms of entertainment for these people involve the enjoyment of human suffering in which Crake and Jimmy enjoy in their teen years. This society places all their emphasis on technology and science which ends up completely devaluing the…

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 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…

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…

Introduction On the fateful morning of November 22, 1983, the lifeless body of Lynda Mann, a fifteen-year-old girl, was discovered in Narborough, England. Her brutal rape and strangulation sent shockwaves through the community. This tragic incident marked the beginning of a harrowing journey that would lead to a groundbreaking moment in forensic science and criminal justice. The case of Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, another victim who met a similar fate, played a pivotal role in the development and application…

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…

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…