The novel of Oryx and Crake is a science fiction developed by Margaret Atwood in 2003. It describes a possible future of human beings associated with the elements of misusing bioengineering science powers, death of literature and post-apocalyptic scenarios. It can be identified as an anti-utopia novel that believes an ostensibly peaceful society with various kinds of uncontrollable evils inside. The stories of this novel unfold with the two-clued structure associated with the interactions among three principal characters – Jimmy, Crake and Oryx. One clue is the post-apocalyptic scenario at present that only Jimmy as the last human being is existed in the world. It describes that Jimmy had to live in the post-apocalyptic world with the daily
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Firstly, the values and ways of Jimmy to understand the world can be identified as the conflict between goodness and evilness. The nature of Jimmy is goodness because he usually thinks things and others in the good view even these things are horrible. For example, Atwood describes that “Jimmy made a pretence of thinking” after Jimmy knows Crake want to drug all human beings in the modern society (122). The word of “pretence” represents Jimmy naturally think his friend is always good even his actions may cause some unfavorable consequences to others. He will pretend the consequences do not exist. Meanwhile, Jimmy usually say “this would be really evil” for unfavorable things he observed from the modern society (Atwood 123). It determines that Jimmy has the ability to judge the goodness or the evilness associated with the things and people in the modern society. However, if these evil things are related to his friends of Crake and Oryx, his values and ways to understand the world show a conflict that he will pretend these evils do not exist and their related consequences will be positive. Therefore, the goodness nature of Jimmy as his value significantly connives with Crake to change the world into the post-apocalyptic world without consideration of the consequences to other human beings lived in the world. According, the goodness value of Jimmy can be identified as a driving force for Atwood to convey her stories associated with the fantastic change of human
Firstly, the values and ways of Jimmy to understand the world can be identified as the conflict between goodness and evilness. The nature of Jimmy is goodness because he usually thinks things and others in the good view even these things are horrible. For example, Atwood describes that “Jimmy made a pretence of thinking” after Jimmy knows Crake want to drug all human beings in the modern society (122). The word of “pretence” represents Jimmy naturally think his friend is always good even his actions may cause some unfavorable consequences to others. He will pretend the consequences do not exist. Meanwhile, Jimmy usually say “this would be really evil” for unfavorable things he observed from the modern society (Atwood 123). It determines that Jimmy has the ability to judge the goodness or the evilness associated with the things and people in the modern society. However, if these evil things are related to his friends of Crake and Oryx, his values and ways to understand the world show a conflict that he will pretend these evils do not exist and their related consequences will be positive. Therefore, the goodness nature of Jimmy as his value significantly connives with Crake to change the world into the post-apocalyptic world without consideration of the consequences to other human beings lived in the world. According, the goodness value of Jimmy can be identified as a driving force for Atwood to convey her stories associated with the fantastic change of human