Final Paper

I plan to analyze the fictional and realistic components of Oryx and Crake and how likely Atwood's future is given the way our society is living and treating the world. In particular, I want to discuss the benefits and dangers of genetic splicing and how likely that, as in the case of Crake's experiements, genetic manipulation can go wrong enough to cause a catastrophic event. I also plant to touch on the realistic descriptions of how Atwood describes the way humans affect the environment, whether or not it leads to as depressing of a world she desscribes.