Thursday, August 27, 2015

What are corresponding themes for Frankenstien by Mary Shelley and Never Let Me Go by Kazou Ishigiro?

Both 's and Kazuo
Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go present conflicts between science and humanity.
In Frankenstein,infamously creates a living being out of assorted body
parts from cadavers. Victor is motivated by his excessive ambition to be remembered for a
groundbreaking scientific discovery. He brings this being to life but then abandons it, as he is
horrified by what he has done.is inherently good but becomes evil due to his abandonment and
rejection over several attempts to interact with humans. Shelley's novel illustrates the
dangerous lack of forethought in Victor's project; he doesn't think about how the being will
live or what the implications of his project will be. This leads to tragic consequences for all
involved and for those associated with Victor. In this novel, scientific developments do not
necessarily yield positive results for humanity.

In Never Let Me
Go
, our mainare basically human clones who are used to grow organs for
"real" humans. They serve as donors who undergo phases of transplants until they
finally "complete," or die. The donors grow up in an idyllic environment in the
Hailsham boarding school. When they get older, they move out to apartments and have more
freedom, but they also officially become organ donors at that point. As we know from the
narrator, Kathy, these "clones" certainly experience human emotions and hope and
expect more from their lives. They are ignorant to the truth of their condition until they begin
the donation process. In Ishiguro's novel, the scientific development of cloning willfully
ignores the issue of the clones' humanity. There doesn't seem to be much care or concern for how
they will feel about this choice already having been made for them. They have no say in the
outcome of their lives.

Again, both novels bring up the dangers of
scientific development that ignores the human question. While these developments may seem
beneficial to some, they are also shown to be careless and even callous to others. The subject
who is developed through these revolutionary experiments is not considered fully
"human" and so is not treated with the dignity or respect they reveal themselves to
deserve.

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