THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE TWO SCIENCES AND THE MORAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Jimmy’s imperfectness is also portrayed by his career choice, which is a big theme in the novel; the fight between two major sciences; the natural sciences and the humanities. In the novel Crake represents the natural sciences, in view of the fact that he is the one who created the Crakers in the Paradice unit in RejoovenEsens working with gene modification, and Jimmy represents the humanities, working at the AnooYoo writing descriptions of the products produced, thus working with linguistics.
The pharmaceutical companies in the novel are not limited to only creating cures for disease, they are creating animals that can grow human organs, and creating mixes of different
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The Crakers are a scientific product, produced by Crake, and has only been taught the necessary words, to understand what to eat and what not to eat, whereas Snowman tries to remember all words in order to say sane, in order not to let his former self disappear completely; " ‘Hang on to the words' he tells himself…. When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been." Snowman believes that he is the only human left after the apocalypse, and therefore he tries to hold on to these words in order to not let the last bit of humanity slip away, for the reason that when he dies, only the Crakers remain, and the Crakers are not human beings as Snowman; the Crakers are a post-human creation. To the reader, this form of synthetic evolution of humans is questionable; however Crake sees it as very natural, almost as a necessary thing to be done. Crake is trying to create the perfect human beings, they will die at the age of 30 in order not to overcrowd the earth, they have a mating cycle, they are vegetarian, and capable of recycling their own feces. Crake wants to edit all the flaws human has according to him; the need for jealousy, marriage, religion and war. However, when Snowman returns from his journey, he finds that the Crakers possess some of the flaws Crake wanted to edit out; the Crakers have tried to summon him, by building him with scrap they have found, and sitting in a circle saying “Snowman”, as if they were calling their prophet home. This raises the question, if it is even possible to create humans without the human assets; will they not then be robots? A part of