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Emmanuel Levinas holds out a ‘messianic’ hope of the Other; the apocalypse for Levinas is the moment of encountering the face of the Other which results in being a ‘responsible traumatic split subject.’ His ‘ethics of alterity’ and ‘utopian ethics’ become the basis of this messianism in which the Other will demand a ‘hostage;’ as a result, subjects’ ‘hospitality’ and ‘openness’ make them sensible all the time. Atwood’s apocalyptic MaddAddam Trilogy represents a dystopia in which the responsible subjects end the world to establish a utopia for the benefit of the Other. A catastrophic apocalypse is considered as a response to the existence of the Other but in the form of ‘negation.’ This response is for the sake of humanity and clearing the chaos of dystopia in the hope of establishing a utopia with the utopian ethics. After passing two kinds of apocalypse, messianic and catastrophic, the survivors in the novels will be ethical subjects in relation to the Other.