Essays about: "Oryx and Crake"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Oryx and Crake.
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1. "I'm Going Away Now" : Posthumanism and the End of the Anthropocene in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : This essay explores the themes of posthumanism and the Anthropocene in Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake. It analyses how the novel describes humanity’s effects on the earth in the novel and its human and non-human inhabitants, during the geological era that is called the Anthropocene. READ MORE
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2. A Whole New World : A Reading of Deep Ecology in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : This essay explores the theme of deep ecology in Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake. It analyzes how the novel deals with the topics of environmental disasters and the apocalypse. It describes humanity’s effect on the planet and how the inventions of the Crakers and the BlyssPluss pill can be seen as good things. READ MORE
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3. Hang on to the Words : Knowledge Tokens, Hierarchies, and Concurrent Narratives in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy has received substantial critical attention inthe fields of ecocriticism, the ethics of bioengineering, and feminist theory. However, the vast majority of this criticism has focussed on Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, the first two books in the trilogy. READ MORE
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4. Too Late for Snowman : Transhumanist Ideals in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturAbstract : This essay attempts to study transhumanism and its role in the anthropogenic pandemic at the center of the novel, in order to show that transhumanist thought was a driving factor behind it. By looking at transhumanist concerns in the portrayed society, and the beliefs of Crake, one uncovers that Crake was able to exploit the desire for enhancement of humanity as a whole in order to achieve the ultimate transhumanist goal: the near-perfect and immortal posthuman Crakers. READ MORE
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5. How human are the Crakers? : A study about human identity in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake
University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOLAbstract : This essay has handled the subject of humanity in Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. The aim of the thesis was to argue that the Crakers developed into human beings with help of their teachers. READ MORE