Oryx and Crake demonstrate the bad scientific observations and the dangers hardly ever conversed in fiction before, but that are noticeable in present societal order. Bio-engineering is the world ruled by technocrats and dominated by capitalist interests. Atwood prepares and alerts the readers about the commercial exploitation and use of hazardous bioforms. Another contemporary concern dealt with in this novel is bio-piracy. It is the practice of commercially exploiting naturally occurring biochemical or genetic material, especially by obtaining patents that restrict its future use, while failing to pay fair compensation to the community from which it originates. Atwood imagines a genetic engineering corporation called HealthWyzer that produces and disseminates diverse kinds of bacteria and trickily sells cures and medicines to pollute populace with the ailments that it produces.
The destructive result of man’s domination and maltreatment of the natural world is destructing the world in a huge manner. According to Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, the exploitation and abuse of nature of humans began to take form as soon as different didactic human myths created a logic of domination, maintaining that “the world [is] subject to man” (pp77). Religious and classical texts, such as Genesis, reinforced the belief that man incontestably had dominion “over all the earth” and that “Man’s likeness to God [consisted] in sovereignty over existence” (pp77).
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