Since the beginning of the novel “Oryx and Crake” by Margaret Atwood, Crake gives us the impression that he wants to create the perfect utopian society. Crake is set on destroying all present human life and replacing them with his own herbivorous species, or perhaps better known as the “Crakers” and he used this species to jump start what seemed like the perfect utopian society in his eyes. “All it takes said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next and its game over forever.”(223) Crake’s main goal was to have a new world that revolved around science, and to have his new species, the
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But Crake was not the only person to think that the human population and their tactics had become a problem. At one point in the novel, Jimmy who was living with his girlfriend Amanda, and two male artists , who didn’t quite take a liking to Jimmy, they also had similar views to Crake’s about the human race. “It had been game over once the agriculture was invented, six or seven thousand years ago. After that the human experience was doomed, first to gigantism due to a maxed out food supply, and then to extinction, once all the nutrients had been covered up.”(242) These artists believed that humans were monsters and were good for nothing. Although Crake and the artists had different ideas and thoughts you can definitely see some similarity between them. With all of his ideas in mind, Crake continued to try to pursue his dream, first he started off by inventing the Blyss Pluss pill to destroy what little was left of the original population, and then, he created the Crakers which were built to withstand harsh future environments. In some ways you could say that Crake became this Godly figure, even if this new …show more content…
Not only did the Crakers not have the ability to recognize different races, they couldn’t read’ they couldn’t have fun or fully enjoy themselves. They only knew what Jimmy told them. Before Jimmy, the Crakers didn’t know how to draw, color, or paint. There was no knowledge that art even existed; they didn’t know things such as art, religion, or other language existed. One of Jimmy’s and Crake’s childhood games “Blood and Roses” showed this loss of culture and humanities. In this game the “Blood” side played with genocide and human massacre, while the “Rose” side was more into playing with art and architecture, and other basic human achievements. (78) Crake’s “utopia” became the real life version of this game, but with a twist, the genocide of the human populations meant the giving up of the arts and humanities instead of simply exchanging. One important aspect was that Crake became a God, or a ruler to the Crakers. Oryx the “go-between” reported to Jimmy and Crake that the Crakers questioned were they were from and who created them which was a shocker because she thought that their memory had been wiped. Jimmy encouraged the Crakers to worship him and Crake by explaining to them how Crake created the world and them, and when Jimmy traveled to one of the compounds the Crakers built and idol of him and worshipped him. This worship signifies the beginning of religion among the
But Crake was not the only person to think that the human population and their tactics had become a problem. At one point in the novel, Jimmy who was living with his girlfriend Amanda, and two male artists , who didn’t quite take a liking to Jimmy, they also had similar views to Crake’s about the human race. “It had been game over once the agriculture was invented, six or seven thousand years ago. After that the human experience was doomed, first to gigantism due to a maxed out food supply, and then to extinction, once all the nutrients had been covered up.”(242) These artists believed that humans were monsters and were good for nothing. Although Crake and the artists had different ideas and thoughts you can definitely see some similarity between them. With all of his ideas in mind, Crake continued to try to pursue his dream, first he started off by inventing the Blyss Pluss pill to destroy what little was left of the original population, and then, he created the Crakers which were built to withstand harsh future environments. In some ways you could say that Crake became this Godly figure, even if this new …show more content…
Not only did the Crakers not have the ability to recognize different races, they couldn’t read’ they couldn’t have fun or fully enjoy themselves. They only knew what Jimmy told them. Before Jimmy, the Crakers didn’t know how to draw, color, or paint. There was no knowledge that art even existed; they didn’t know things such as art, religion, or other language existed. One of Jimmy’s and Crake’s childhood games “Blood and Roses” showed this loss of culture and humanities. In this game the “Blood” side played with genocide and human massacre, while the “Rose” side was more into playing with art and architecture, and other basic human achievements. (78) Crake’s “utopia” became the real life version of this game, but with a twist, the genocide of the human populations meant the giving up of the arts and humanities instead of simply exchanging. One important aspect was that Crake became a God, or a ruler to the Crakers. Oryx the “go-between” reported to Jimmy and Crake that the Crakers questioned were they were from and who created them which was a shocker because she thought that their memory had been wiped. Jimmy encouraged the Crakers to worship him and Crake by explaining to them how Crake created the world and them, and when Jimmy traveled to one of the compounds the Crakers built and idol of him and worshipped him. This worship signifies the beginning of religion among the