Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake: Critiquing the Faith on Eugenics

Abstract

The research project entitled “Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake: Critiquing the Faith on Eugenics” evinces the idea of eugenics as the part of techno-science. The story moves back and forth which reveals that how the world comes to an end because of the work of a genius as well as mad scientist. The narrator, Snowman, undergoes many challenges and hardships in his life because he is the only survivor of the destruction. He witnesses the global catastrophe or Black Death that is caused by the medicine BlyssPluss Pill containing Juve Virus and act of eugenics. He is the one who dared to combat or go against with his master or friend in terms of ecological viewpoint to save animals, humans and ecology. This paper examines the attitude of a scientist-Crake who has a motto to replace human world by creating better creature than humans. The narrator tells the story from pre to the post devastative world to clarify the idea about science which we are adopting nowadays without any concerns upon its future consequences. This paper tries to critique on effects of science on environment. In the novel, the writer Margaret Atwood has presented the passion of obtaining higher position and power to rule all over the world in a more intellectual way. After all everything goes wrong and the devastation takes place where everything is swept from the world and remains nothing. Therefore, this dissertation explores the idea about science; we should not have blind faith upon science all the time. We should be aware of advancement of scientific innovations such as: eugenics and implementation of new medicines.