Survival In Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

If you were given the option of choosing between your morals and values or survival, what would you chose? The obvious answer is survival. Most people would chose their lives over what they claim to highly praise. In the Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, the main character, Pi, loses his morals and values while stuck on sea. Martel proves that in times of difficulty, man can lose his morals and values in exchange for survival.
While on sea, Pi slowly continues to give up on his values. Pi becomes a person he didn’t even know existed. He states, “I descended to a level of savagery I never knew possible” (249). Pi slowly becomes more and more inhumane. He starts comparing himself to Richard Parker because of his eating habits and how he starts eating. Pi has also forgotten about his values. Overtime, Pi starts caring less about what his morals and values are, which he once very highly praised.“Worse still, he met evil in me, selfishness, anger, ruthlessness” (391) Therefore, Pi explains how his whole character and personality has changed just by being on sea which is slowly driving him insane.
Not only is he losing his values of his diet but also of simply touching the meat he once considered so wrong. He emerges onto killing the animals more violently. “I stuck my fingers into eyes, jammed fists into gills, crushed soft stomachs with my knees, bit tails with my teeth” (246). Pi believes that killing an animal for his needs is okay now he doesn't realize how inhumane he has become. Pi is also killing animals just for the enjoyment of their blood, because of the satisfaction it is giving him. “His blood soothed my chapped hands” (391). Animal blood has become a necessity for him now, it sooths him due to being deprived from the real