TY - JOUR
T1 - “Tell my story”
T2 - Remembrance and revenge in atwood's oryx and crake and shakespeare's hamlet
AU - Barzilai, Shuli
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The many literary traditions Margaret Atwood explores and subverts in Oryx and Crake tend to obscure the crucial genre form with which her novel engages: the revenge tragedy. This article proposes that Oryx and Crake be read as an intertextual dialogue with Shakespeare's Hamlet in particular. In both texts, a revenge plot inexorably unfolds: a father is treacherously murdered; a mother, implicated in her husband's death, marries the murderer; an only son learns of the secret crime and dedicates himself to vengeance.
AB - The many literary traditions Margaret Atwood explores and subverts in Oryx and Crake tend to obscure the crucial genre form with which her novel engages: the revenge tragedy. This article proposes that Oryx and Crake be read as an intertextual dialogue with Shakespeare's Hamlet in particular. In both texts, a revenge plot inexorably unfolds: a father is treacherously murdered; a mother, implicated in her husband's death, marries the murderer; an only son learns of the secret crime and dedicates himself to vengeance.
KW - Animal and human rights
KW - Dystopian fiction
KW - Environmentalism
KW - Revenge tragedy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=61249644357&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3200/CRIT.50.1.87-110
DO - 10.3200/CRIT.50.1.87-110
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AN - SCOPUS:61249644357
SN - 0011-1619
VL - 50
SP - 87
EP - 110
JO - Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction
JF - Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction
IS - 1
ER -
