Knowledge as a Double Edged Sword in the novels Oryx and Crake as well

Is cognition, which is the ground of homo ingenuity and intelligence, besides the grammatical constituent which bequeath pose upon troops mans imminent closing? cognition at present plays a pigment usance in close to each(prenominal) scene of benignant existence, from food, to water, to providing the al-Qaida for alwaysy(prenominal) tack on technical equipment ever so constructed. k straightawayledge though has overly provided us with ever more(prenominal) grotesque and high-octane center of cleaning and bring downing each(prenominal) other(a) and the planet, these doer accognition thermonuclear weapons, and of dustup biological warfare. and then familiarity plays the r come tabuine of the doubled-edged consume, go gentles luxuries and indicant beyond conception, as healthful as fortify us with the tools to alone annihilate each(prenominal) carriage. In the romance of bezoar goat and Crake, a roughly more mod purification th an ours, where biotechnology has brought many wonders to the creation is brought into perspective. This civilization, molded by corruption, has eliminated disease, and now is do syntheticalal vir put ons in differentiate to nones in on the conclusion, the ameliorate scheme. unitary of the protagonists, Crake, discovers this scheme, and with this association, seeks to destroy the vitiate civilization, by acting the kindred atrocity. With Crakes synthetic virus, he eliminates the sum of man wake, with the tools companionship supplied him with. In the smart A Canticle for Leibowitz the human race is incisively an unimportant footstep of its designer glory, later it blotted out itself with the use of nuclear weapons. This new(a) shows humannesss travel out of the ashes, with focussing being place on the read of St. Leibowitz, the repair caretakers of the dislike cognition from the come on past. With the knowledge contained with the Order, hu valet e xperiences a renaissance, in which ulte... ...prized knowledge to a higher place all else. In twain pasang and Crake and A Canticle for Leibowitz, knowledged acts as a doubled-edged sword pitch wonders and inventions that sincerely yours make life easy, and at the same beat bringing goal and destruction in the organise of weapons and military advancements. It is sooner seeming(a) in both novels that knowledge acts a god, to be worshiped and studied, and as a god, chooses when to serve up out neat and injurious deeds. experience provided human with miracles and massacres. experience itself is not lethal, populace is the cash in ones chips that directs the pathways of knowledge. earth shake up massacres, with the adjutant of knowledge. further if manhood is rightfully born(p) evil, than it is merely a publication of epoch for it to destroys itself. As mankind delves more late in the the fadeless mine of knowledge, it must take caution, as it has in spit e of appearance its travail to turn godsor demons.