ABSTRACT
Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood is set mainly in the pleeblands and provides the desired information. The political realm in The Year of the Flood is dominated by the corporations. Nations, evidently, are no more, and large global business interests have become the functional substitute. The real threat in the economic realm, however, came less from CorpSeCorps enforcement and more from the consequences of the exchanges that characterize the society Atwood has created in The Year of the Flood. The social realm should, of course, be dominated by love power. Rather, there are some threats and a general aura of exchange. Given the damage an opposite philosophy has led to, the reader cannot help but interpret this resistance group in a positive manner. Early, she seems to assume it is exterior force that victimizes human subjects. Then, recognizing that it is often interior as well, she explores that interiority in some detail.
