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One of Canada's most public literary personalities, Margaret Atwood has made her reputation as much as by being versatile as by being controversial. As a poet she has to date produced ten volumes of verse, and since her early university days, she has pub...

The author of over sixty books, Margaret Atwood holds a unique position in contemporary Canadian literature. "Atwood is arguably the most recognizable writer in the country," noted John Bemrose in Maclean's. Likewise, Ann Marie Lipinski, writing in the C...

Margaret Atwood is arguably the most prominent contemporary Canadian writer. Best known for her novels, Atwood is also admired for her accomplishments as a poet, critic, essayist, and short-story writer, and she has contributed as well to children's fict...

There are many religious, Christian metaphors in Atwood's Oryx and Crake. What is most interesting to consider, though, is the idea of Snowman as the only human, as a survivor, and most importantly as a representation of the biblical `serpent'.

Margaret Atwood's "Orxy and Crake" was obviously influenced by Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." Both Crake and Victor Frankenstein try to changed the human race by manufacturing a human, both with disasterious consequences. Both Crake and Frankenstein do not take responsbility for their actions.