Similarities Between Oryx And Crake

The title of the novel, which is, Oryx and Crake is given by the author to emphasize the importance of the two main characters who are Oryx and Crake. Both of these characters are given so much importance because whenever the protagonist of the novel Snowman/Jimmy thinks about the past events, the majority of the stories and incidents are centered upon these two characters. The reason could be that both the characters are very close to Snowman’s heart and they both play a very important role in his life. The character Oryx is shown as the love of his life and the character Crake is the best friend of Jimmy and they both were close since their childhood. Both the characters Oryx and Crake reach a milestone in genetic engineering as Crake engineers

Margaret Atwood sets her novel in the world of dystopia where the world is portrayed pessimistically and in the future. The dystopian world is totally different from the present world. The dystopian world is a futuristic and ultra modern envisaged cosmos where the society is controlled by the domineering and tyrannical corporate, bureaucratic, technological or totalitarian group. The dystopias are sarcastically a form of criticism of showy worst case scenario of current trends, societal norms or political system. The dystopia is exactly opposite of a Utopian society which is perfect in every way. But the dystopian society refers to the society that is unbelievably flawed, defective, damaged and unsatisfactory. The dystopian society lacks the harmonious and egalitarian qualities of life that are depicted in utopias. Dystopia is Utopia’s mirror image. While employing many of the same concepts as utopia, for example, social steadiness created by authoritarian regimentation, the dystopia comprehends these ideas pessimistically. Dystopia angrily challenges utopia 's fundamental assumption of human perfectibility, arguing that humanity 's inherent flaws contradict the possibility of constructing perfect societies, except for those that are perfectly hell-like. Dystopias are exclusively fictional, that presents forbidding, tyrannical societies with the moralistic goal of preventing the horrors they point

M.H.Abrams states that “Dystopia means a bad place…in which certain ominous tendencies of [the] present social, political, and technological order are projected in some future culmination” (78). The best examples in dystopian literature are George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. These two novels are identified as the standard dystopian narratives in the twentieth