The novel of Oryx and Crake is a science fiction developed by Margaret Atwood in 2003. It describes a possible future of human beings associated with the elements of misusing bioengineering science powers, death of literature and post-apocalyptic scenarios. It can be identified as an anti-utopia novel that believes an ostensibly peaceful society with various kinds of uncontrollable evils inside. The stories of this novel unfold with the two-clued structure associated with the interactions among three principal characters – Jimmy, Crake and Oryx. One clue is the post-apocalyptic scenario at present that only Jimmy as the last human being is existed in the world. It describes that Jimmy had to live in the post-apocalyptic world with the daily fight with various gene-splicing monsters in order to take care the crakers which are made by Crake. Another clue is the world before the post-apocalypse. It describes the misuse of bioengineering science powers by large transnational enterprises that forces Crake with Jimmy and Oryx to change the world into a utopian society. Therefore, the relationships among Jimmy, Crake and Oryx as interdependence and leadership, and the different values and ways of three characters to understand the world as goodness and evilness, rightness and wrongness and utopia and anti-utopia, both convey the thoughts of Atwood associated with the future of human society, the implication of technology development and the nature of human beings. Initially, the relationships among Jimmy, Crake and Oryx are interdependence and leadership that can be identified as the backgrounds of the stories in the novel for Atwood to convey her cruel thoughts of future of human beings. Firstly, interdependence can be identified as one of important relationships among Jimmy, Crake and Oryx. As the best friends with each other, Jimmy, Crake and Oryx show significantly interdependent relationship in the novel of Oryx and Crake as the background to explain their actions to result in the post-apocalyptic world step by step. For example, Atwood describes that “Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought of him” (39). The word of “weakness” directly represents the strong degree of Jimmy to rely on the friendship with Crake. It is the reason that Jimmy helps Crake to change the modern world with various evils into their imaged utopian society by eliminating human desires. It also is the reason that Crake selects Jimmy as the last human being in his utopian world to take care his crakers. Atwood also describes that “Oryx said to Crake, Let us get rid of the chaos. And so Crake took the chaos, and he poured it away” (57). It describes the strong interdependent relationship between Crake and Oryx that becomes the raw motivation for Crake to consider to change the world into a utopia in order
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Firstly, the values and ways of Jimmy to understand the world can be identified as the conflict between goodness and evilness. The nature of Jimmy is goodness because he usually thinks things and others in the good view even these things are horrible. For example, Atwood describes that “Jimmy made a pretence of thinking” after Jimmy knows Crake want to drug all human beings in the modern society (122). The word of “pretence” represents Jimmy naturally think his friend is always good even his actions may cause some unfavorable consequences to others. He will pretend the consequences do not exist. Meanwhile, Jimmy usually say “this would be really evil” for unfavorable things he observed from the modern society (Atwood 123). It determines that Jimmy has the ability to judge the goodness or the evilness associated with the things and people in the modern society. However, if these evil things are related to his friends of Crake and Oryx, his values and ways to understand the world show a conflict that he will pretend these evils do not exist and their related consequences will be positive. Therefore, the goodness nature of Jimmy as his value significantly connives with Crake to change the world into the post-apocalyptic world without consideration of the consequences to other human beings lived in the world. According, the goodness value of Jimmy can be identified as a driving force for Atwood to convey her stories associated with the fantastic change of human
Firstly, the values and ways of Jimmy to understand the world can be identified as the conflict between goodness and evilness. The nature of Jimmy is goodness because he usually thinks things and others in the good view even these things are horrible. For example, Atwood describes that “Jimmy made a pretence of thinking” after Jimmy knows Crake want to drug all human beings in the modern society (122). The word of “pretence” represents Jimmy naturally think his friend is always good even his actions may cause some unfavorable consequences to others. He will pretend the consequences do not exist. Meanwhile, Jimmy usually say “this would be really evil” for unfavorable things he observed from the modern society (Atwood 123). It determines that Jimmy has the ability to judge the goodness or the evilness associated with the things and people in the modern society. However, if these evil things are related to his friends of Crake and Oryx, his values and ways to understand the world show a conflict that he will pretend these evils do not exist and their related consequences will be positive. Therefore, the goodness nature of Jimmy as his value significantly connives with Crake to change the world into the post-apocalyptic world without consideration of the consequences to other human beings lived in the world. According, the goodness value of Jimmy can be identified as a driving force for Atwood to convey her stories associated with the fantastic change of human