상상할 수 없는 것을 상상하기: 마가렛 애트우드의 『인간종말보고서』
Imagining the Unimaginable: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood's post-modern dystopian novel, Oryx and Crake shows difference of the form diverged not only from the traditional dystopian novel but also from the critical dystopia. In contrast to the traditional dystopian novel where a society represents failed utopia with closed ending, both utopian elements and dystopian characteristics are mixed in her novel. And the open-ended style in a type of transgressive utopian dystopia implies a utopian impulse toward a better future. Snowman, the last survivor and the narrator of the novel, sustains his existence telling his story after the unknown apocalyptic event transversing the boundaries between the past and the present. Although he tries to communicate with perfect post-human Crakers who are created by a scientist Crake, it is impossible because they don't have any common context in language. Crake tried to create eco-utopia with birth of post-human Crakers but the perfect utopian world excluding others has not accomplished yet even after the complete extinction of the mankind. Although the past described by a narrator, Jimmy was both a dystopian and an utopian society where everything is appraised by market value in compliance with insatiable modern society’s consumerism and advanced scientific technology, Margaret Atwood warns us against a dystopian future to come in her novel and makes us to consider a possibility of new mankind with a open ended form. After all, the utopian form she defines through her novel is not a kind of ideal destination but a process toward the better future and the dystopian society in her novel also shows an utopian impulse of the mankind.
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Margaret Atwood's post-modern dystopian novel, Oryx and Crake shows difference of the form diverged not only from the traditional dystopian novel but also from the critical dystopia. In contrast to the traditional dystopian novel where a society represents failed utopia with closed ending, both utopian elements and dystopian characteristics are mixed in her novel. And the open-ended style in a type of transgressive utopian dystopia implies a utopian impulse toward a better future. Snowman, the last survivor and the narrator of the novel, sustains his existence telling his story after the unknown apocalyptic event transversing the boundaries between the past and the present. Although he tries to communicate with perfect post-human Crakers who are created by a scientist Crake, it is impossible because they don't have any common context in language. Crake tried to create eco-utopia with birth of post-human Crakers but the perfect utopian world excluding others has not accomplished yet even after the complete extinction of the mankind. Although the past described by a narrator, Jimmy was both a dystopian and an utopian society where everything is appraised by market value in compliance with insatiable modern society’s consumerism and advanced scientific technology, Margaret Atwood warns us against a dystopian future to come in her novel and makes us to consider a possibility of new mankind with a open ended form. After all, the utopian form she defines through her novel is not a kind of ideal destination but a process toward the better future and the dystopian society in her novel also shows an utopian impulse of the mankind.
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