There are two main times in Margret Atwood's novel Oryx and
Crake. There is the time before the virus spreads, where the world is very
advanced and high tech. It's sorta sci-fi in a way with all the compounds and
how life is almost perfect and any problems can be solved with a bit of science.
This is of course the rich upper class side if the story. Atwood describes
these super high tech advanced laboratory where almost everything is being
modified and heightened. After this huge virus spreads and kills all of humanity
as Jimmy knows it. The world goes to it's very basics. Nothing is high tech and
everything is very animalistic. Things are almost like how it use to be back in
the cave man period. Snowman has to hunt for his food and takes shelter in
pretty much what he can take shelter in. It's kind of funny how the story goes
backwards in time and everything that man has work so hard to build simply doesn't
matter anymore. Their world goes from looking like where our future is heading
with all the technology to how earth use to be. Very simple and basic. It kinda
makes you wonder if this is a prediction that Atwood is making to our future. I
mean everything she mentions in the story is here now in present day. The only
thing is that everything is over exaggerated and blown out of proportion to our
eyes now. But as times are going, Jimmy's world of super advanced life isn't
really that far away. We already have all sorts of genetically modified animals
that can glow and after research for my presentation. I have learned that
technically we CAN have real pigoons living right now if we wanted to. They are
very close to making lab grown meat and after recent economic times, the gap between
the rich and the poor is growing.( pleeblands and the compounds) Since the
books ends with the end of humanity.....is this going to be our future? I mean
people are predicting the end of the world with the 2012 thing. Does this have
any significance to what we just read? Does Margret Atwood's predictions in the
story a reality?
I also think it is interesting how they went from a very high tech world to an archaic world. It makes sense though because everything was powered by humans and if they are all dead, then nothing will work. Reading this book made me very scared because it shows step-by-step how the end of humanity happened and we are currently going on the same path in many aspects. At first, we think that everything is a little bit far-fetched but when you think about it, it isn't. I don't know if her predictions will come true, but I sincerely hope not.
ReplyDeleteExactly! after our presentations on some of the aspects of this book,most things are very close to being in our lives in reality if not already there.Her predictions aren't even that far-fetched in my opinion....
ReplyDeleteHmm. All much as it could be possible for the world to come to some ugly end, I have faith in humanity.
ReplyDeleteWe made it so far. We are hardy! If we all wave the white flag, we will stick around for a long time to come.