Similarities Between Oryx And Crake

Crake’s ultimate goal in Oryx and Crake is to create a race that is not susceptible to the same follies as man. He looks for those aspects that he finds the most dangerous and aims to program the Crakers to avoid those characteristics. The Crakers are designed to avoid setting up leaderships and governments, not believe in mythology and stories, avoid romantic relationships, and definitely avoid religion. Crake reasons that religion is completely illogical and has caused numerous wars and fights throughout history. However, Crake does not anticipate what will happen once the Craker race comes to fruition. In the story, we may imagine Crake as a god-like being. He is only a man, but he already has so much confidence in himself that he thinks of himself like a god. He has the control over the entire fate of the world, basically. Crake brings the world back to a place like it was in the beginning of time when God first created the earth. Here, she alludes to the story of creation of the three major Abrahamic religions. God created the earth and put animals on it first. We can see a parallel to this when Crake is playing …show more content…
They start to see him as at least somewhat of a deity. Actually, they know that they were created by Crake, and they believe that Oryx is someone who looks after them from some unknown place. Jimmy/Snowman is more like a messenger or a prophet though. It does not seem that the Crakers see Jimmy/Snowman as their god. However, they see him as someone who is between them and their god. He is one who can communicate with their god, Crake. They do not know that Crake no longer exists, and even when he did exist, he was merely a man. Jimmy is similar to the Prophet Mohammad, in the Islamic faith, in that he receives messages from God and relays them to the people in a way that they can understand. Much like Mohammad, he teaches the Crakers how to live their lives and what is acceptable for