Abstract
Themes of Nature and humanity's abuse of it have long featured in Margaret Atwood's works: poetry, fiction and non-fiction. The author is an environmental activist herself, taking an active interest in current environmental and climate change issues. From one of her earliest novels Surfacing (1972) to her seminal work The Handmaid's Tale (1985) to the more recent MaddAddam trilogy (comprising the novels Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009) and MaddAddam (2013)), Atwood has commented on and criticized humanity's treatment of nature as something to be dominated and beaten into submission. In the context of the current cultural and environmental crisis the world is experiencing, this paper will analyze Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy through the lens of ecocriticism and examine how closely her vision of eco-dystopia reflects the current state of affairs in the world.
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