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Genetic Modifications In Margaret Atwood's Oryx And Crake

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Embryos for Sale In Margaret Atwood's novel Oryx and Crake, Atwood argues that genetic modifications end up hurting society, instead of helping it in order to demonstrate what can happen if science changes everything society has ever known. Atwood communicates this by describing all of the disasters that have taken place due to all the genetically modified animals and later, children. When the modifications were taking place in the animals, there were a lot of people that knew about it, and did not try to stop what was going on. Once the modifications started to take place in the human population, the people that knew about it became few and far between, so nothing could be done to stop the people behind the modifications. Atwood chooses the progression from animals to humans to display that the consequences because of the modifications do not, all happen because of a single event, but rather from a series of events that happen over time. The implications that Atwood made in 2003 have just started to come to light within the past few years. Atwood starts her novel with genetically modified animals such as the rakunk, pigoon, and wolvog. These animals made the people in the compound wonder if there should be genetically modifications taking place in animals, but because no one did …show more content…

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