Margaret Atwood's Satire About Social Issues
Margaret Atwood’s commentary about social issues in our society
Rebecca Harper
Mr.Yuen
English 12
May 19, 2014
Margaret Atwood’s commentary about social issues in our society Born on the 18 November 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Margaret Atwood was the second of three children. Her family spent most of every year in bush country Quebec and Ontario. She grew up surrounded by science, and was encouraged to read up on popularized science by her entomologist father, his students, colleagues and her brother whom was also a scientist. Growing up in Canada, Atwood was encompassed in an “immense and formidable environment” (Earl G. Ingersoll 1). By comparing her past to the perception interpreted through three of her works; Oryx and Crake, Year of the Flood and Gathering, this paper will show Atwood’s negative commentary allowing us to feel her tone towards aging and society’s ways of dealing with aging and the environment.
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The Gardeners in Year of the Flood show resemblance to the Crakers in Oryx and Crake. The characters, who establish themselves as God’s Gardeners, are able to reinvent themselves, by way of renaming and seeking new narratives; there are no questions asked or anything said about their past lives. The renaming of characters shows a connection between Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood. The renaming and reinventing of characters represents how hard it is to live in a corrupt, overprotected society overrun with harsh enforced rules by the Corpesecorps. The Corpesecorps are the internal police force within the compounds; they enforce harsh rules in aggressive and biased ways. The use of the Gardeners hiding from normal society to live off the land and avoid confrontation of police force and the majority of society is an example of Atwood’s commentary towards social issues facing
Rebecca Harper
Mr.Yuen
English 12
May 19, 2014
Margaret Atwood’s commentary about social issues in our society Born on the 18 November 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Margaret Atwood was the second of three children. Her family spent most of every year in bush country Quebec and Ontario. She grew up surrounded by science, and was encouraged to read up on popularized science by her entomologist father, his students, colleagues and her brother whom was also a scientist. Growing up in Canada, Atwood was encompassed in an “immense and formidable environment” (Earl G. Ingersoll 1). By comparing her past to the perception interpreted through three of her works; Oryx and Crake, Year of the Flood and Gathering, this paper will show Atwood’s negative commentary allowing us to feel her tone towards aging and society’s ways of dealing with aging and the environment.
The connections …show more content…
The Gardeners in Year of the Flood show resemblance to the Crakers in Oryx and Crake. The characters, who establish themselves as God’s Gardeners, are able to reinvent themselves, by way of renaming and seeking new narratives; there are no questions asked or anything said about their past lives. The renaming of characters shows a connection between Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood. The renaming and reinventing of characters represents how hard it is to live in a corrupt, overprotected society overrun with harsh enforced rules by the Corpesecorps. The Corpesecorps are the internal police force within the compounds; they enforce harsh rules in aggressive and biased ways. The use of the Gardeners hiding from normal society to live off the land and avoid confrontation of police force and the majority of society is an example of Atwood’s commentary towards social issues facing