A Study of Crucial Human Issues in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake

Abstract

Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in 1939. She is the most prominent Canadian poet, novelist, critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She has considerable number of books of poetry, seventeen major novels, books of non-fiction, short fiction, children’s books, and a graphic novel to her credit. Atwood has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize five times, and a recipient in 2000 for The Blind Assassin. She is a winner of the  Governer General’s Award 10 times, and many other prestigious awards.  As a novelist and poet, her works encompass a variety of themes like gender, identity, religion, climate change, and power politics.