Theme Of Sacrifice In Oryx And Crake

In the novel Oryx and Crake (2003), Margaret Atwood allocates the character's principles of value, and how that leads to deliberate sacrifice. Atwood is able to elucidate these principles through the use of the protagonist's flashbacks, a present and past 3rd person, all-knowing narration, and a clever tone that puts a strong emphasis toward the scientific advancements of the 21st century. Atwood’s purpose in parts of the novel is show why Jimmy sacrifices his happiness, in order to show how a synthetic world can make someone value the natural human life.

Jimmy the main protagonist throughout the novel is clearly seen unhappy in his present world. Ms. Atwood shows this by indicating that,” Snowman is sad because the others like him flew away over the sea, and now he is all alone” (9). By saying this it shows how the main character, Jimmy or Snowman feels isolated because he is all solitary. The rest of the humans have been washed out of the face of the Earth and the only human form object is him. Manifesting that, he feels miserable

Jimmy could care less in in his early childhood about what goes on around the world , however when it comes to the fake scientific advancements he has a concern about them. Later on he proves this concern because after everyone is gone he knows how messed up the world is. Natural life can no longer prosper, since even fake trees were made and animals were being formed to be fake too. The scientific advancements made him cherish life more because he knows he is starving and not comfortable however, he tries to still live in order to just keep the human population alive so the future world would not be all synthetic and to try to make Earth valuable again with natural elements. He chooses to stay on the planet in order to try and preserve it and although unhappy he deals with it to show how much he worships