Comparing Atwood's Oryx And Crake

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In a world that has a foreseeable future of climate change, genetically modified humans and animals raise the uncertainty of the future. The unforeseeable future is a reality in Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake. These fears of the future strike an existence in the novel where the main characters Snowman/Jimmy and Crake take on daily challenges. Crake dreams of the world where his version of humanity differs from the others, where there is a world of science rather than art. This affects his version of humanity…….specifically through the world of science. The Protagonist is Snowman who as a child was named Jimmy and was Crake’s friend who is responsible for the state their world is in. Humanity is defined as “the quality or state of …show more content…

At Watson-Crick, Crake is able to expand his perspective of his view on humanity by being able to create genetically modifying the “Crakers”. The Crakers are cloned of perfection of robotic like bodies and have endless sense of happiness. In Crake’s viewpoint, the Crakers have immortality(303). “Immortality. said Crake, it is concept. If you take ‘morality’ as being, not death but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immoral. Edit out the fear, and you’ll be…” (303). I believe this shows Crake’s motive of making the Crakers is to be superior by improving the situation and better society. TEXT In addition to developing the Crakers, he is attempting to take away their desires, because of his emotional standpoint. Since Crake lacks certain emotions, he creates Crackers which would cause other people to experience less emotions. For example, when Crake’s parents die he shows little emotion to the situation. Crake calls his Mother’s procedures impressive and he didn’t miss much by not having the chance to speak with her prior to her death (177). The Crakers lack of emotion is a result of Crake’s attempt to take away their desires. I believe that in his attempt he of taking away the Cracker's desires, he ignores his

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