Assignment 1.2 The gap between the rich and poor in society are fundamental in capitalism because in order to make a profit, there needs to be people who are put into many different situations in order to make a profit for the higher classes. In Atwood's Oryx and Crake
, the people who are in the higher class are put into a closed off area, known as compounds, where they live without the diseases and focus on making cures for all the diseases while the lower classes have to deal with the diseases in the world around them. Despite the opportunities that the upper class has Atwood shows that these opportunities can cause many consequences as it does in Oryx and Crake because in that society the need to make a profit by going after what they thought …show more content…
By society being so focused on making a profit without focusing on the morals that they are discarding it leads their society to destruction because by exposing their children to these sites, games and experiments they are making the child become desensitized to what is morally unacceptable. Oryx
's character is an example of the desensitization that happens in the lower classes because despite what she and the people of the lower classes thought when they were put into their roles such as being part of a porn website, they eventually got used to it and became somewhat desensitized to it. This desensitization also leads Crake to believe that humans cannot be perfect because of the different genes that are in them that allow for emotion and human connection and decides that in order to perfect the world he must create his own species without the “flaws” of human nature. Crake
's lack of human life and his need to make a profit in order to create his other experiments makes it easy for him to give the world the deathly pill of BlyssPluss despite the knowledge that this would destroy most of civilization. By using Crake and the society of Oryx and Crake as an extreme example, it sets a warning to societies today that the need to constantly consume should never compromise with societal moral values otherwise it could lead to dire
, the people who are in the higher class are put into a closed off area, known as compounds, where they live without the diseases and focus on making cures for all the diseases while the lower classes have to deal with the diseases in the world around them. Despite the opportunities that the upper class has Atwood shows that these opportunities can cause many consequences as it does in Oryx and Crake because in that society the need to make a profit by going after what they thought …show more content…
By society being so focused on making a profit without focusing on the morals that they are discarding it leads their society to destruction because by exposing their children to these sites, games and experiments they are making the child become desensitized to what is morally unacceptable. Oryx
's character is an example of the desensitization that happens in the lower classes because despite what she and the people of the lower classes thought when they were put into their roles such as being part of a porn website, they eventually got used to it and became somewhat desensitized to it. This desensitization also leads Crake to believe that humans cannot be perfect because of the different genes that are in them that allow for emotion and human connection and decides that in order to perfect the world he must create his own species without the “flaws” of human nature. Crake
's lack of human life and his need to make a profit in order to create his other experiments makes it easy for him to give the world the deathly pill of BlyssPluss despite the knowledge that this would destroy most of civilization. By using Crake and the society of Oryx and Crake as an extreme example, it sets a warning to societies today that the need to constantly consume should never compromise with societal moral values otherwise it could lead to dire