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Oryx and Crake Abitur
Lilly Ehrenberg
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11/12/13
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Lilly Ehrenberg Friends attitude towards Helth Wyzer Jimmy -indifferent -sleep/drunk -tired, bored (1.6) Oryx and Crake for mock exam -naive/ doesn´t understand -short sentences, often one-word responses, in order to just confirm Crake How? ho Compounds a) Structure/line of arguments b) Style, e.g., length of sentences, e.g., images c) Language, choice of words d) Attitude (author) and approach (company) e) Conclusion: affection you and the reader+ summary of main devices -numerous affairs -focuses on the business of HW -seems impressed by HW tactics -interested in HW because he is a scientist (-appalled by HW´s murdering his father) Crake Pleebland -elite -isolated selected group, who mainly work for the industries+ on scientific projects Jimmy and Crake compared to: Jimmy-protagonist -talented with words; gifted in performance and wordplay -several addictions like alcohol, sex, cigarettes - "plebs" ordinary, common people -lower, working class 2020 Crake-antagonist -talented scientist; coldly rational and fiercely atheistic -no interest in love, sex, affection, friendship --expect to childhood friend Jimmy -loves elegant solutions to human problems Lilly Ehrenberg ---his mother left him; father not interested; unemotional friendship with Crake -gifted survivalist; suffers from loneliness -culpability= guilty Characteristics of Atwood: ho Genetic engineering: ---inelegant: hormones, sex, emotions Pigoon project: -- human tissue growing in pigs --easy to transplate --reusable; avoid rejection --able to fend of attacks of viruses --rapid-maturity gene Brain Project: --neuro regeneration --for stroke victims -interested in biologically optimal humans; wants to breed out curiosity etc. The novel seems to shed light on the society we currently live in and foreshadow what could be our future. Oryx and Crake is a near-future dystopian novel with strong satiric undertones that revolves around...
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the innovations of gene splicing and their consequences. Skin project: --skin related biotechnologies 2020 --anything that can be imagined or created is real -thinks humanity is a flaw -sociopathic personality She may have simply been trying to demonstrate that no matter how bad a society seems, one must keep their perspective in mind, and know that there is always a chance to undo mistakes as long as there is life. -born 1939 (2003 oryx and crake) -writing about; art and its creation, dangers of ideology and sexual politics; the environment, social class and sustainability Lilly Ehrenberg ho --new epidermis --wrinkle-blemish free Oryx and Crake compared to: Brave New World 2020 1. Class difference Five castes; alphas are the best; conditioning center; goal is stability 2. Use/attitude towards technology Technology to ensure happiness and stability; limits scientific research (search for truth) threat to state control 3. State vs. Individual freedom All powerful state controls in order to preserve power and stability; make citiziens superficially happy= forget personal freedom Loss of dignity, morals, values, emotions= humanity 4. Pursuit of happiness Eliminated all painful emotions; universal use of drug soma; desire of food, sex, drugs-destroy human truths 5. The role of history and literature History unknown; conditioned to dislike; still have Savage Reservation and Mustapha Monds books 6. The savage world Bridge between two cultures; outsider=defends the importance of religion; wants true emotions
Englisch /
Oryx and Crake Abitur
Lilly Ehrenberg
11/12/13
Ausarbeitung
Details etc. zu den Charakteren
surrogate motherhood
6
11/12
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Thomas More/Morus - „The only true commonwealth“ + „till death do us apart“ (marriage) > Utopia
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12/13/10
Vocabulary dystopia/utopia
93
11/12/13
Conditionals
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Lilly Ehrenberg Friends attitude towards Helth Wyzer Jimmy -indifferent -sleep/drunk -tired, bored (1.6) Oryx and Crake for mock exam -naive/ doesn´t understand -short sentences, often one-word responses, in order to just confirm Crake How? ho Compounds a) Structure/line of arguments b) Style, e.g., length of sentences, e.g., images c) Language, choice of words d) Attitude (author) and approach (company) e) Conclusion: affection you and the reader+ summary of main devices -numerous affairs -focuses on the business of HW -seems impressed by HW tactics -interested in HW because he is a scientist (-appalled by HW´s murdering his father) Crake Pleebland -elite -isolated selected group, who mainly work for the industries+ on scientific projects Jimmy and Crake compared to: Jimmy-protagonist -talented with words; gifted in performance and wordplay -several addictions like alcohol, sex, cigarettes - "plebs" ordinary, common people -lower, working class 2020 Crake-antagonist -talented scientist; coldly rational and fiercely atheistic -no interest in love, sex, affection, friendship --expect to childhood friend Jimmy -loves elegant solutions to human problems Lilly Ehrenberg ---his mother left him; father not interested; unemotional friendship with Crake -gifted survivalist; suffers from loneliness -culpability= guilty Characteristics of Atwood: ho Genetic engineering: ---inelegant: hormones, sex, emotions Pigoon project: -- human tissue growing in pigs --easy to transplate --reusable; avoid rejection --able to fend of attacks of viruses --rapid-maturity gene Brain Project: --neuro regeneration --for stroke victims -interested in biologically optimal humans; wants to breed out curiosity etc. The novel seems to shed light on the society we currently live in and foreshadow what could be our future. Oryx and Crake is a near-future dystopian novel with strong satiric undertones that revolves around...
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the innovations of gene splicing and their consequences. Skin project: --skin related biotechnologies 2020 --anything that can be imagined or created is real -thinks humanity is a flaw -sociopathic personality She may have simply been trying to demonstrate that no matter how bad a society seems, one must keep their perspective in mind, and know that there is always a chance to undo mistakes as long as there is life. -born 1939 (2003 oryx and crake) -writing about; art and its creation, dangers of ideology and sexual politics; the environment, social class and sustainability Lilly Ehrenberg ho --new epidermis --wrinkle-blemish free Oryx and Crake compared to: Brave New World 2020 1. Class difference Five castes; alphas are the best; conditioning center; goal is stability 2. Use/attitude towards technology Technology to ensure happiness and stability; limits scientific research (search for truth) threat to state control 3. State vs. Individual freedom All powerful state controls in order to preserve power and stability; make citiziens superficially happy= forget personal freedom Loss of dignity, morals, values, emotions= humanity 4. Pursuit of happiness Eliminated all painful emotions; universal use of drug soma; desire of food, sex, drugs-destroy human truths 5. The role of history and literature History unknown; conditioned to dislike; still have Savage Reservation and Mustapha Monds books 6. The savage world Bridge between two cultures; outsider=defends the importance of religion; wants true emotions