In a 3-4 page essay you will compare Crevecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer with Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. You must use one of the prompts to develop your comparison. Please use MLA citations, proper margins, 12 point TImes New Roman font.
In Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake how is nature represented? Is there any semblance of the pastoral, like in Creveceour’s early letters? What about extinction? If Crevecoeur were alive today, how would he respond to Atwood’s vision of America? How does the corporate culture of Atwood’s dystopia relate to the culture of greed and excess in Charles Town? Are the CorpSeCorp’s the new slavery? In Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake how is nature represented? Is there any semblance of the pastoral, like in Creveceour’s early letters? What about extinction? If Crevecoeur were alive today, how would he respond to Atwood’s vision of America? How does the corporate culture of Atwood’s dystopia relate to the culture of greed and excess in Charles Town? Are the CorpSeCorp’s the new slavery?
Below is the link for the text for Letters from an American Farmer:
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/letters.asphttps://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/letters.asp
Additionally the text for Oryx and Crake is included as a PDF.