Oryx And Crake: The Perfect Utopian Society
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 throughout the novel we see that Crake uses this herbivorous species to being a world where everything is pure perfection and controlled by him also known as his utopian dream. “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.”(99) Crake’s main goal was to jumpstart a world so advanced and based on science, much like the world we live in today and to have his new species, the Crakers, become the new human population and take aspects that Crake disliked such as human reproduction and the emotions that we feel and create this species to be anything but human. But ridding of emotions and reproduction wasn’t the end of what Crake hoped to accomplish, he rid of politics, religion, culture, and different languages, all things that the original human population used in everyday life. Crake planned every detail in his new utopian society, but the real question is how a perfect euphoric world could one day turn sour and become a major dystopia.
Crake’s idea was to become a society purely based on science, and since resources were dwindling and the humans were matters away from becoming extinct, Crake decided to take matters into his own hands and create a pill that would end all the current societal problems. 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
Crake’s idea was to become a society purely based on science, and since resources were dwindling and the humans were matters away from becoming extinct, Crake decided to take matters into his own hands and create a pill that would end all the current societal problems. 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