Essays on Oryx

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“The Hunger Games” and “Oryx and Crake” are books set in fictional post-apocalyptic worlds. This paper seeks to examine the main fundamental human fears that exist in the two novels and storylines. In line with this, the main and fundamental fear in these two novels is the fear of being able to control what we create and what to come. This directly results from not knowing our potential in terms of what one can achieve. Furthermore, it results from not knowing the results and consequences of our actions. The books give an idea of what will happen in the ...

In the novel Oryx and Crake by the author Margaret Atwood, the author should have focused more on the two characters Oryx and Crake as the title depicts. Instead, the whole novel is centered on one character Jimmy or rather Snowman. The story is seen as being told through the vantage point of one character as memories of events that happened in his life, this story is centered on human nature in the phase of scientific developments (Tolan 294). The story should have been written in a first-hand experience of events as they happen. The characters Oryx and Crake ...

In her article, “Human/Nature: Ecological Philosophy in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”, Jayne Glover talks about how Atwood constantly shifts the perspective of the readr between the utopian ideals of the lead characters and how it leads to dystopian ends. She argues that the novel challenges the reader into thinking about how an ecologically sustainable world can be created without losing what is essentially human about it. Glover in her article talks about how science fiction deals with the issues raised by ecological philosophers and eco critics such as the divide the exists between culture and nature and ...

One of the major conflicts in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake is the rivalry between ethics and corporate profit. As business becomes technologically more advanced and carries more power in society, the public is frequently asking where the boundaries will develop to protect humanity. As in many science fiction novels, the destruction of civilization in Oryx and Crake comes about when one group makes decisions that ultimately result in annihilation. Atwood’s world shows what happens when corporate greed for capital is allowed to operate without being forced to do so ethically. While some of the science discussed ...

Abu Dhabi derives its important on account of the fact that it is the capital of United Arab Emirates. As pointed out by Tristam, in his online publication on Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates is federate structure constituted of seven mini states that are autonomous in nature out of which Abu Dhabi is the largest. The remaining seven states are Quwayn, Dubai, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaymah, Ajman and Al Fujayrah. Tristam further points out that, Abu Dhabi is an island city and its distance from the mainland is approximately 800 feet. Tristam further points out that the reason why ...

Introduction

Currently the distribution of tigers extends from the Pacific coast of Russia to West and Southern India, continuing East into the Malayan Peninsula and Sumatra. They inhabit a wide range of habitats from impenetrable tropical forest of Sumatra to the semi-arid tracts of Western India and the human dominated agricultural landscapes of the Gangetic Plains of India. The tiger (any sub-species) is always the top carnivore and the apex predator of any ecosystem wherever it is present. Being on top the food chain, they regulate the population of other predators, prey species (herbivores) and in turn the plant population of a ...

Deforestation is defined as the act of chopping down trees as well as clearing forests without planting others in their place (Debra 1). People cut down trees for different reasons. The increase in population worldwide has escalated cutting down of trees due to the increase in the demand for land for people to build houses to live in and also to obtain land for farming of both subsistence and cash crops, both by individuals and governments. People, particularly those living in rural areas where they cannot access electricity as well as gas, resort to cutting down trees for firewood, ...

Strange Science: The Role of the Grotesque in Oryx and Crake and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr, Hyde Every culture has different rules and norms to follow, the adherence to which often separate the classes from each other. However, there are a few hand-and-fast rules that are cross-cultural; these values seem to be etched into the fabric of what makes humanity human. Although there are slight differences across the varying cultures, most cultures agree that murder, for instance, is immoral and undesirable within a civilized society. Another example of a nearly-universally-held value is the general human distaste for ...

Each administration around the globe usually allots more budgets in the field of health care and development especially now that techniques change per technology invented for the field. In the United States, they have developed various systems that would allow them to criticize and monitor each aspect of healthcare from staff to the services offered by each health care facility. It is crucial for the US government to have a well-rounded and organized staff that would facilitate inside the hospital and deliver proper services. With the development happening in the medical industry, patients find it to be necessary to keep ...

Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003) and Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008) bear striking resemblances to each other. Both novels are set in an apocalyptic dystopian future; both novels use modern advances in the media as a central part of their plot; and both could be argued, in a way, to address the issues of male/female relationships. They are linked too by critical confusion over their genre. Are they both science fiction novels? Are they fantasies? Are they informed predictions of the fate of humanity? Atwood has always been adamant that her earlier novel The Handmaid’s Tale was ...

A Critical Paper

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood was first published in 2003; the novel is a dystopian vision of world in the not-too-distant future in which humanity has been almost destroyed through a combination of careless and self-centred scientific practices and moral corruption. Like most dystopian fiction (indeed, like Atwood’s own The Handmaid’s Tale), the novel works less as a neat prediction of the future, but an urgent warning about our contemporary society and controversial issues within it. Ultimately, then the novel is less a futuristic nightmare than a satire on current developments in bio-science and in the world of technology, as well ...

Canadian writer and poet Margaret Atwood is first of all famous for her novels. The novel titled Oryx and Crake was published in 2003 and was the finalist for the Booker Prize. It is a brilliant combination of the fantasy and the love story. The reader gets absorbed with the plot from the very first chapter when the main character is found in a tree. His name’s Snowman and he is probably the last living man in the whole world. He is surrounded by strange creatures called Crakers, who take care of him and seem to worship him as well. ...