Science Without Ethics in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake

Abstract

This thesis deals with apocalyptic disaster which is erupting twenty first century through human irresponsibility’s. The development of science and technology helps us to live in harmony but in other side there are climate changes, nuclear wars, famine, death and global destruction. In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel “Oryx and Crake” shows us the possible consequences of human actions, which also acts as a warning for the destruction of our environment. It is set in a futuristic world that is controlled by powerful and unethical companies that produce many trans-humanistic, biotechnological products. The class distinctions are apparent, the wealthy and intelligent live in company compounds and the rest live in poor unprotected conditions in the cities. Atwood presents events of this novel through double time frame. This speculative fiction describes the relation between present movement and future. It also points out human beings had already gone beyond crucial point. The past shows the globe was affected by the climatic destruction and capitalist multinational corporates, which spreads a dark in the protagonist Jimmy’s childhood. The present time Snowman Jimmy remains trapped and looking back to wonder,