Oryx And Crake Analysis

The human beings have a mentality of missing something after it’s long gone. Even in this novel, Oryx and Crake, certain characters like Jimmy’s mother and Crake’s father do represent humans who have the concern for the natural environment. These two characters in the novel, though has worked for the scientific corporations at one point, they realize that they are working in a wrong place. Jimmy’s mother Sharon, is shown as a complex character in the novel because she does not like the lifestyle that she leads. She feels that living inside the compound is like living in the jail without having any privacy. Moreover, she feels like everything happens in the compound is against nature. When she was present in Jimmy’s childhood, her presence had a confused effect on the family life. It is very well seen in the novel that she suffers from depression and also implied in the novel that she suffers from some other mental health

But in contrast to that novel, where humans imitated with difficulty, Oryx and Crake is a deterrent tale about human’s careless overpopulation, their bountiful gobbling down of resources, their lack of husbandry and restraint. The novel poses off-putting questions about the potential outcomes of cloning, global destruction, child slavery, stem-cell hybrids, experimental viruses and applied ethics.

Atwood’s portrayal of nature’s devastation in Oryx and Crake is rarely seen in traditional dystopian fiction. She warns mankind alongside the deadly angle of man’s arrogant commercial and technocratic social orders along with the eco-catastrophes that these trends are supposed to bring about. Oryx and Crake represents a landscape that is changed into a dangerous and violent biosystem as a result of human progression and hazardous biotechnological experimentations. In her book entitled Wilderness and the Natural Environment, Roth asserts that environmental movement