Similarities Between Oryx And Crake

Oryx and Crake is the story of Snowman who lives alone in a post-apocalyptic world. The novel takes place in the United States, in the state of New New York. Due to the environmental downfall, the New York we all know is gone and replaced by New New York. The environmental factors that led up to the melting of the land depict a dystopia that shed light on not only the inevitable future that our negligence for the environment will provoke, but also show the result of the current environmental policies if they do not change. I will be supplementing my argument that dystopian fiction is a critique on the modern day practices, policies, and negligence with Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto. Both works of literature depict the inevitable paradox of self-destructive human actions despite knowing the consequences of their actions. To use Donna Haraway’s terminology, people manifest into cyborgs due to the excessive consumption and exploitation of the resources we have. Throughout Atwood’s
The notion of intimacy, and sex for pleasure as well as procreation of the human race is very human like trait and priority. Before the expansion of innovation in technology, people turned to religion and God for answers. Now, as Haraway admits and Atwood portrays, God is dead. People’s obsession with creation is suppressing our hunger for spirituality and faith. Unlike in present day, the organisms depicted in the dystopia are not thinking of creation because there is no real demise. The only reason we are obsessed with how things come to exist is because we value our lives, and want to spend as much time on earth as possible, where as in the dystopia time is irrelevant. Cyborgs and Crakers alike have faith in themselves, and their survival. They take matters into their own hands. Modern technology has helped us achieve the inconceivable decades ago, and we have since then become subhuman, we’ve become