For hundreds of years people have been attempting to prolong life, and essentially become immortal. There are many new technologies in this time of scientific exploration and advancement that claim to do these things. The more thought is put into the true nature of human beings, the clearer the realization seems to be that as a species, humans are inclined to challenge limits and set boundaries. In Oryx and Crake by Atwood, demonstrate that human desire to attain eternal youth, can lead to the end of humanity. The novel Oryx and Crake explores the nature of the human psyche, and illustrates that all humans are driven by desire to become immortal which leads to destruction of humanity.
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Representing the cities outside the compounds as frightening and dangerous. That shows that outside world has become very hostile for human beings to exist.
Another way Oryx and Crake explore the nature of the human psyche, and illustrates that all humans are driven by desire was the creation of “blyssPluss pill”. The blyssPluss pills was created by Crake to protect humans from the diseases and make them immortal by giving them eternal youth. Crake tells Jimmy that the pill has three functions and he said
“Would protect the user against all known sexually transmitted diseases, fatal, inconvenient, or merely unsightly. Would provide an unlimited supply of libido and sexual prowess, coupled with a generalized sense of energy and well-being, thus reducing the frustration and blocked testosterone that lead to jealousy and violence, and eliminating feelings of low self-worth. …show more content…
Their desire of harvesting human organs by using the pigoon project only leads humanity its demise. Human’s desire of becoming immortal pushes them to even challenge god way of life and disrupting its nature. Their desire took control over them that they forgot the the purpose of the project to help people instead they only did everything to benefit themselves. They created diseases instead of finding cures to make money and even started competition between people to for the cure all just so they can make more money and keep their business running. Moreover, they spread diseases to benefits themselves knowing that fact that the diseases will leads many humans to their death. Thus, the outside world has become very hostile for human beings to exist. In addition, human desire of creating the blyssPluss pill to become immortal has only caused harm to humanity instead of helping them live longer and attain prolong youth. The blyssPluss pill provides human with unlimited supply of libido and sex prowess, and protects from any sexual transmitted diseases. Although it provides human with protections from sexual transmitted diseases and to have unlimited sex it also sterilize the users by removing the reproductive purpose behind the sex. Therefore, it put humanity under the threat of extinction.