Overpopulation In Oryx And Crake

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In the novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Crake knowingly caused a plague that led to the death of the majority of humanity. His intentions behind this act were to help the world from human suffering by creating a pill and modifying embryos to create a better population. Unknowingly to Snowman and Oryx, this pill called BlyssPluss would eventually cause a worldwide epidemic killing those who were not immunized beforehand. This act of deceit was intended to “help” make the world a better place but the actions were taken by Crake destroyed the world.
Crake being the scientist that he thinks that he can solve the worlds “suffering.” He believes that overpopulation is one of the main issues with their society and this leads to his plan to

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