They certainly followed some Biblical and scientific practices, and beliefs. The God’s Gardeners are a group of religious sect. They strive to bring about a great ecological change in the society throughout the novel. And the novel portrays the role of God’s Gardeners, their eccentric behaviour, and their peculiar lifestyle in creating an environment-friendly society. “The Year of the Flood” is set in a fallen future. Key words: Dystopian Fiction Environmentalism God’s Gardeners Disaster Margaret Atwood Atwood brilliantly narrates, how a handful of them survive the disaster with the help of their ecological and scientific knowledge, along with the teachings of Bible, which they acquired being a member of the God’s Gardeners sect.

The dystopian fiction predominantly deals with a religious sect called the “God’s Gardeners”, who predict a human-species-ending disaster. “The Year of the Flood” is Atwood’s one such novel in which she lays stress on the significance of ecosystem and a scrupulously precise way of handling the same. Her works are largely based on environmentalism.

This paper aims to examine the peculiar, and most importantly the strange lifestyle of the “God’s Gardeners” in the novel “The Year of the Flood” by Margaret Atwood. Visalakshi, M.A, M.Phil, Assistant Professor, Dept. The Eccentric Lifestyle of “The God’s Gardeners” in the novel “The Year of the Flood”īy – D Priyanka Priyavarshini (introduction at the end of the paper), Vol.

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