Prey
The novel Prey by the American author Michael Crichton is a techno thriller that shows the issues that may occur in the ever rapidly growing pace of today's scientific advances, and what may happen if the technology grows too fast out of the control of the human race. Expressed throughout the novel themes of Man vs. Nature and Man vs. Society as well as Appearance vs. Reality were evident. Jack Foreman the character narrator of Prey faces the transition of single handedly getting himself fired from his job being a supervisor for a team of programmers. He manages to do this and unwillingly accept his role as a househusband rather than his wife, Julia, who was a housewife until she was forced to get a job as the Vice President of a Leading company in technology and thus separating her from the family she was before the head of and mounts tensions between her and Jack. Thus creating the Man vs. Society theme of the novel where Julia's strange behavior towards Jack and her
Nature which showed the true essence of Michael Crichton's thoughts on society and the sciences summed up a fairly decent novel by a great American author. children compels Jack to think that Julia is cheating on him and the reasons that he had gotten fired at work, where he found people in his company in some 'shady' dealings with other companies and presented it to his boss where he found out that he was just as much a part of those dealings as well. By showing these characteristics of machines, Crichton tries to reflect on how today's very rapid science advances may very soon as well lead to the demise of humanity if let out of control, if we bring technology up to the point where its uncontrollable and unstable that itself, what we created could take us over. Society with all of Jack's personal problems that influenced later happenings in the book. The last theme is the one that Michael Crichton really reflects on today's society; the theme here is Man vs. The whole novel is related to this theme because of all the masking of what 'really happened' that this story takes on. He and his team that he supervised created most of the basic code programmed into the machines and hence why he was hired again. As Jack learns in the second half of the book, the machines that have been plaguing his life for the past 6 months, not to his knowledge, he had much to do with. Towards the end of the novel you learn that these nano-machines are already almost impossible to stop because of their being invisible to the naked eye and very few weak points which are becoming ever fewer as time progresses because of their ability to adapt and grow, or 'upgrade' themselves into an even better model of what they already are, thus eventually making them invulnerable. Through showing different types of themes throughout the novel Prey; Man vs. This theme also showed up in the sickness that seemed to be plaguing people especially in Jack's family with a flu-like disease indicated by a rash that came from those escaped nano-machines. This theme showed itself most throughout the novel whether it is the shady business men, Julia's so called affair that was mistaken for late hours in work, stress, and the later catastrophe of the sample of nano-machines that had escaped from the laboratory that she was working at. Reality, which showed itself in every part of this book and was the dominant theme throughout the novel compared to the others. Reality factor of the novel which seemed to be the predominant theme.
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