Margaret Atwell’s Oryx and Crake demonstrates the effects of the absorption of the middle class into the upper and lower classes; the Compounds and Pleeblands serving as the two separate societies within this speculative fiction. The seeming non-existence of a middle class in Atwood’s society results in the scientifically-minded and business driven Compounds taking control over the exterior market; this in effect establishes the upper class’ as the controlling force in the Western world. It is through the oppression and manipulation of the lower classes that capitalistic pursuits create a segregated and isolated society in which the divide between the rich and poor grows continually
Margaret Atwell’s Oryx and Crake demonstrates the effects of the absorption of the middle class into the upper and lower classes; the Compounds and Pleeblands serving as the two separate societies within this speculative fiction. The seeming non-existence of a middle class in Atwood’s society results in the scientifically-minded and business driven Compounds taking control over the exterior market; this in effect establishes the upper class’ as the controlling force in the Western world. It is through the oppression and manipulation of the lower classes that capitalistic pursuits create a segregated and isolated society in which the divide between the rich and poor grows continually