Attitudes to Nature in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and the MaddAddam Trilogy
Attitudes to Nature in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and the MaddAddam Trilogy

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a study of relations of humans to nature in Margaret Atwood’s novel Surfacing and her MaddAddam trilogy. These novels highlight various negative aspects of the relationship between humans and nature or non-human beings, such as violence against animals, hunting and fishing, exploitation and destruction of the environment, climate change, genetic engineering and the creation of genetically modified animals and humans. On the other hand, the novels also suggest some possibilities of positive relations, such as the experience of unity with nature, deriving hope from the beauty of nature and its power of adaptation and regeneration, creating new ways of cooperating with nature and non-human beings, instead of dominating and destroying them.

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