Science Fiction by Margaret Atwood with a Post-human Impact Crake and Oryx | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

ABSTRACT

This article explores Margaret Atwood's 2003 novel Oryx & Crake to see if it presents a criticism of emotion in the post-humanist era. We discuss how the novel explains how human existence and machines are connected with the lack of compassion that arises from this by using dystopian artefacts from XXI society. What does the narrative teach us about how a post-human society affects our emotional ties to the environment, machines, and even ourselves as post-human subjects? It's important to highlight that we will be looking at post-humanism from two angles: as a chance to show humanist naiveté and as an illustration of the contemporary man-made society in which humans and non-humans are closely intertwined. As a result, the suggested debate serves as a reminder of how helpful dystopia may be as a mirror for the society from which it arises, particularly in respect to the new critical perspectives emerging from a post-human dystopia. Oryx & Crake's (2003) protagonists' astute appraisal of this post-human future, when everything seems to go wrong, disproves the unwarranted assumption that dystopias would not be relevant if one lived beyond the possibility of an openly authoritarian governmental authority.