Monday, November 14, 2016

Week 13 Oryx and Crake Blog

Oryx and Crake Blog                                                                                   Miranda Lee

I believe there is a distinctive style of approach in that you see a different point of view of the genre in the main plot point that focus on the character Snowman also known as Jimmy back when he was a child, his point of view and how his experience of childhood is used in the genre, science fiction in the novel that may had led Snowman being stranded and isolated and that he is reminded of his old childhood life when he was ignorant and kept in the dark contain the theme science fiction as a background. It reminds me of another book the hatchet of another male survivor who also is stranded on an island almost alone and it focuses on his experience. So in the novel the science fiction is the cause of a dangerous experimenting and we are focus on the aftermath of the world that surround itself with a very hostile and corrupted civilization that has taken too far in manipulating genetics of animals; specifically “pigoons” with the replications of organs and other cloning of meats and other food product that may cause his world to be target by outside of his home, the compound. The main character and his very disconnected life with everyone he loved.

Experimenting on humans to obtain flawless young skin seem excessive and goes against nature and the order of life. Growing a pig brain there has got to be consequence that the father should be aware of. The parents are in their own world neglecting their son who is aware of their emotional stress. Morality is a huge theme between Snowman’s father and mother tearing apart the family. It seems to be a build up of tension in what Snowman’s father is doing that could go wrong while Snowman relives his childhood unaware of this and its affects on his life.

There seem to be hints of our modern day society is very outdated and that the games that kids can play are very violent and very similar on dictatorship or conquering lands reverting back to the more primitive ways of mankind that may represent the mindset of the people in the future that is only a little ahead of our time. As if the act with manipulating society is a theme the sense of dominance and control over mankind. Snowman as a child represents the ignorance and naiveté of human society when there is a serious problems created because of the consumerism and capitalism.

In the movie “Existenz” 1999, the world has high tech that seems very bizarre almost alien like that gaming is the theme of the world with organic body technology that seems to be made of a flesh and life. Used the vertical reality as a base or background. The used of human umbilical cord like a high intelligence and color flesh seems to make it feel like it is a part of us like a “new life” that humans created that isn’t a baby. Alternate world to escape reality   creates conflicts in the real world and is consider evil. It seems like a parasite that causes hallucination from a negative point of view. That machine and flesh can create these parasite pods might indicate how humans could go further with this type of technology that could fuse with your body. Almost like a parasite bonding with human mind. Like “Neon Evangelion” anime that humans used real like alien beast as the foundation of the giant robotic suit that the humans used to battle monsters of similar sizes that the alien and human become one in mind and body forming a somewhat an intimate yet disturbing relationship.

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