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“[The bonds that] hold nature together may be at risk of unraveling” (internet source 6).The United Nations report 2019 warns of a mass extinction. One million species might vanish from our earth within the next years. Thoughtless human action has caused this development that will surely have “serious consequences for human beings as well as the rest of life on Earth” (internet source 6). (cf. internet source 6)

Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake, published in 2003, predicted the situation we currently find ourselves in. Atwood is not a scientist working with statistics and probabilities. She is an author creating fictional situations. She could have chosen a more comfortable topic. So what was her intention in writing Oryx and Crake? That is the question this paper is meant to answer. Based on this question the following aspects are going to be discussed: How did Margaret Atwood's life influence her writing? Which formal elements did she use in Oryx and Crake to transfer her message? What are characteristic themes of Atwood's novels and how are they implemented in Oryx and Crake? In what way can Oryx and Crake be seen as an admonition to future generations?