The golden
cage image (or what is also commonly called a "gilded cage") is one that suggests one
lives in luxury but without freedom. Hailsham appears to be a very high quality boarding school
in the English countryside. In its early days, the dystopian experiment to raise children who
have been cloned for use of their organs attempts at first to determine if these human clones
are like other humans. For example, do they have emotions or hopes and dreams? Having Hailsham
resemble a normal school allows the government (who is presumably responsible for this practice)
to perform a kind of experiment. The school is in a scenic...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
In Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, how could we consider Hailsham as a golden cage for the "students" ?
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