Scheming Provenance of Humans in the Present and the Future in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy

Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood and Maddaddam takes us on a journey into a near future that is both all too familiar and unfathomable in three breathtaking novels. A man tries to survive in a world where he might be the last human in Oryx and Crake. He sets out on a quest through the lush wilderness that was once a major city in search of the answers after the world is taken on an unrestrained genetic engineering ride by strong businesses. The long-feared waterless catastrophe that altered the world wiped out the majority of human life in The Year of the Flood. Furthermore, in Maddaddam, a small band of survivors team up with the kind, bioengineered quasi-human species known as the Children of Crake, who will rule over this new planet. These three books carry us from the end of the world to a daring new beginning in a grimly conceivable future influenced by plagues, floods, and genetic engineering. The Maddaddam Trilogy, which is a thrilling, emotional and a masterpiece of imagination, affirms the supreme tenacity of people, community and love. This paper probes into Atwood’s representation of life of today’s human and tomorrow’s post-human bringing in the tenets of humanism and post-humanism.