The Influence Of Human Nature In Oryx And Crakes

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Human Nature’s Influence On Our Ethics and Actions

The story of Oryx and Crake 's makes it very apparent that human nature has a large influence on Jimmy and Glenn 's ethics and actions. Nature 's evolution is presented throughout Margaret Atwood’s scientific novel during the creation of medicines in the factories and moving on to Glenn creating the perfect human, Crakers. Looking into Soraya Copley 's academic article and and stories from Reading the World: Ideas That Matter, we’ll notice the evaluation of science fiction from human intelligence, Ruth Benedict 's many ideas of how society affects the human evolution as well the overall influence on our ethics and actions because of human nature.
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The pharmaceutical companies throughout the story have gone beyond creating medicines to battle disease and bodily dysfunction. The novel goes on to one factory genetically modifying animals, this raised questions about what exactly comprises nature. Glenn sees messing with animals or human genetics his modification of human beings as a part of nature. Through the eyes of Glenn, nothing lies outside of the realm of nature. Yet, the nature of genetics has influenced Glenn who is also known as Crake, to go as far as wanting to distinct humans during a deadly epidemic, and create his own kind of the perfect genetically made up being, Crakers. While he was creating this after life, he could have been working on a medicine to stop the disease from wiping out the humans. Glenn’s human nature is selfish and he’s concerned about things only scientifically relevant. In the real world an intelligent human with his skill could be helping millions of lives with the knowledge he …show more content…

“There were the things his mother rambled on about about [. . .] the Everglades had burned for three weeks straight.” (75). From the Environmental impact article, this passage provided insight into the topic because it gives specific examples that Atwood has constructed in Oryx and Crake of environmental issues that arise in Snowman’s fictional world. The overall argument about environmentalism in Oryx and Crake has to do with human manipulation of nature. Through her various examples (ie: genetic modification of animals), she demonstrates the human tendency to alter and change our environment so that it better suits our needs. In the world that is featured in Oryx and Crake, humans have stopped worrying about the ethical issues revolving around genetic engineering; they have began to only think about their own needs, instead of the needs of the

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