Every great novel tells a great story, and every great story has one or more conflict which makes the story be a great story."Oryx and Crake" by Canadian author Margaret Atwood is a science fiction talking about the ruined world after a horrible catastrophe created by a virulent genetic pandemic that nearly makes every single human being die. Indeed it's been said as a great novel which tells a great story including several conflicts.
Firstly, there's a huge conflict of the society. In the world created by author, most of human have been longing to the immortality of life, therefore, bio-scientists have been pursuing the so-called immortality such as organ transplant and drugs to rejuvenate aging bodies. However, the immortality of life violates the rule of nature, and over-developed bio-tech only lead human to calamity, but they still refuse to obey the rule. Accordingly, at this duration, Crake, as the apex of the bio-tech realm, carry out his wicked plan which spread the deadful pandemic into the world in order to make everyone die. Instead of studying more about the way to immortality, Crake creates new human-like species to replace existing human beings because in his perspective, the desire to immortality is come up by tthe fear to death, if he can insturct new beings that lack of interest of art, worship to great man, inablity to read, and no fear to death, the search of immortality would be eventually extincted.
Beacuse of this conflict, the story begins and tells us how the tragedy being made and finally come ture.
By Claude hu
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