MARGARET ATWOOD’UN ANTİLOP VE FLURYA ROMANINDA EKOLOJİK FELAKET

Year 2022, , 110 - 121, 29.04.2022

Barış Ağır

https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.1051596

Abstract

Bu çalışma, Kanadalı yazar Margaret Atwood’un Antilop ve Flurya romanındaki ekolojik felaketi çevresel kıyamet perspektifinden incelemektedir. Romanın distopik dünyasındaki karakterlerin ve motiflerin incelenmesiyle, çalışmada genetik mühendisliğinin olası sonuçları, insanın dizginlenemeyen açgözlülüğü ve tüketimi, nüfus artışı, insan ve gezegenimiz arasındaki ilişkiler gibi güncel temalar incelenecektir. Çevresel kıyamet temasına odaklanan roman, doğanın içsel değerinin ve bütünlüğünün kabul edilmesiyle, insanın doğa ile uyumlu bir şekilde gelişebileceğini göstermektedir.

Keywords

ekolojik felaket, kıyamet, genetik mühendisliği, aşırı nüfus

Ecocatastrophe in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake

Abstract

This study explores ecocatastrophe in Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake through the lens of environmental apocalypticism. By exploring the characters and motifs in the dystopian world of the novel, relevant contemporary themes such as the implications of genetic engineering, unbridled human avarice and consumerism, population growth and the relationship between human beings and the planet that we inhabit are explored. Through the theme of environmental apocalypse, the novel teaches us that only by acknowledging the interior value and integrity of nature and by trying to establish an equal relationship with nature can humans develop harmoniously, together with nature.

Keywords

ecocatastrophe, apocalypticism, genetic engineering, overpopulation

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