Genetic Modifications In Oryx And Crake By Margaret Atwood

In Margaret Atwood's novel Oryx and Crake, Atwood argues that genetic modifications are harmful to society instead of being helpful. Atwood shows this by describing all of the disasters that have taken place because of the genetically modified children. In the novel, genetic modifications start in animals, and then slowly progress to humans. When the modifications were taking place in animals there were a lot of people that knew about it, but once it switched over to the human population the people that knew what was going on became few and far between. The Crakers are a race of genetically modified humans that are created by Crake with stolen embryos. Atwood choses the progression from animals to humans to show that it does not all happen at once. Atwood made these predictions many years before they actually happened, and her predictions have not started to become true until recently. In 2015, planned parenthood was accused of selling human embryos, and in 2016 the United Kingdom was accused of creating the first genetically modified human embryos. The implications that Atwood made years before are now coming to light.
In 2015, planned parenthood was accused of selling embryos; although, it was never shown to be 100 percent
He once told Jimmy, "Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we’re in trouble" (Oryx and Crake). Crake wanted to make sure that the Crakers would not worship anything at all, not even him. Some things Crake just could not avoid because no one taught the Crakers about art, they just started one day, so that just proves that no matter how modified the Crakers were some things just can not be changed, and there will still always be a piece of the original human instincts left. The fact that Crake thought that he could just simply get rid of an entire trait any way of life for his new race of people just shows how far genetic modification can