Comparing God's Gardeners In Oryx And The Year Of The Flood
The novel not only talks about the human destructing the nature but also touches major factors that are used by humanity to destruct this world and those could turn against humanity itself at the end. Atwood talks about technologies, genetic engineering, scientific inventions, private corporations and law and order. The God’s Gardeners in the novels can be compared to the ecological splinter groups that still believe in the importance of nature and take serious actions to protect the nature. Their love and respect for nature can be seen in their deeds to conserve the remains of the nature and also to build a new world where nature is worshipped like old times. The harmony between the humans and the nature is something that can only make this world a peaceful place. Atwood has not constructed these novels only through her imagination but she has depicted what is happening in
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the day today life and the proof could be what we see on daily basis through media. Although the positive impacts of this field could be enormous, there are many questions raised that needs to be answered. Hence, the aim of the research which is to regard the dystopian novels Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood are explored through an ecocritical lens seems to be fulfilled.
And the finding of the research is that the dystopian novels generally warn the readers about the dark future and evokes the sensation of fear and induces the sense of vainness. Finding a ray of hope in dystopian novels is rare but these two novels offer a sense of hope. By proving that a completely perfect society is not possible and also showing the awful results of what happens if humans do not cease to endanger the resources of nature and destructing the Mother Nature would lead to. Dystopia shocks the reader into accepting humanity's flaws as ineffaceable and thereby working toward a better society by helping to prevent nature and its resources with the sense of social responsibility. Also further research on these two novels can be made considering how the characters are affected both physically and mentally and what are the struggles they face in their lives in order to survive and to protect their
relationships.
the day today life and the proof could be what we see on daily basis through media. Although the positive impacts of this field could be enormous, there are many questions raised that needs to be answered. Hence, the aim of the research which is to regard the dystopian novels Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood are explored through an ecocritical lens seems to be fulfilled.
And the finding of the research is that the dystopian novels generally warn the readers about the dark future and evokes the sensation of fear and induces the sense of vainness. Finding a ray of hope in dystopian novels is rare but these two novels offer a sense of hope. By proving that a completely perfect society is not possible and also showing the awful results of what happens if humans do not cease to endanger the resources of nature and destructing the Mother Nature would lead to. Dystopia shocks the reader into accepting humanity's flaws as ineffaceable and thereby working toward a better society by helping to prevent nature and its resources with the sense of social responsibility. Also further research on these two novels can be made considering how the characters are affected both physically and mentally and what are the struggles they face in their lives in order to survive and to protect their
relationships.