9th Reflection: Crake's goal

   Many people, when they first knew that Crake released a virus that destroyed humanity, would think of Crake as a villain.  However, Crake is not the average villain who plans to destroy the humanity so that he could gain something.  All he wants is to speed up the self-destruction of the ever more corrupted and evil human society.  Very likely, he plots his own death to make Jimmy the only one surviving to lead the Crakers.  

Will the Crakers live in utopia?

   Why does he do this, many of us would ask.  Why would any person kill themselves , especially one who is so clever, respected, and wealthy?  I asked the same question, and my best answer to this question is that Crake cares more for his plan to remake society than for his own life.  He wants the Crakers to live independently from human influence, and in order to do that, he kills almost every human, including his lover Oryx and himself.  The only one he chose to survive is Jimmy, to whom he entrusts the job of guarding the Crakers as they grow and develop their own society.  

   What Crake wanted is a civilization free from all the evil human things, such as killing, theft, rape or religion.  He wanted the Crakers to return to nature, to consume grass and plants, and to live without fear and anger and all those negative emotions.  In a way, he achieved that, and the Crakers, if they survive and behave as Crake predicted, will be better people than we are.