Similarities Between Oryx And Crake

In the novel, Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood, Atwood introduces postmodernist motifs throughout the development of Crake as a character. Crake increasingly begins to feel a deep resentment for humanity due to economical, racial, religious, and social conflicts that humanity causes. As a result, Crake begins to develop a new species, called Crakers, that transcends the mental processes for these injustices to exist and believes in a Marxist interpretation of post-humanistic society. At the beginning of chapter twelve, it seems that Crake takes a transhumanistic position to benefit human development via the BlyssPluss pill. Transhumanism, a subset of post-humanism, is the postmodernist theory that is derived from the prefix, trans, that …show more content…
In the beginning of chapter 12, Crake clearly states the issues revolving the inequities and injustices of humanity that lead him to create the Paradice project and the BlyssPluss pill. Crake states that the BlyssPluss pill would “eliminate the external causes of death” by riding humanity of “misplaced sexual energy” (Atwood 293). As a result, Crake believes that without sexual frustration most wars, economic issues, racial, and religious injustices would be resolved. Additionally, the BlyssPluss pill would cure all contagious diseases and decrease overpopulation due to sterilization. In short, Crake believes that the injustices and inequities, mostly caused by sexual frustration, are the main limitations to human development. In fact, later in this section, Crake’s statement on the purpose of the BlyssPluss pill mimics the definition of transhumanism. Crake states, “The BlyssPluss pill was designed to take a set of givens, namely the nature of human nature, and steer these givens in a more beneficial direction” (93). Crake seemingly believes in this section that the introduction to the BlyssPluss pill would be the main catalyst that would advance human development past our current limitations of inequity and