Ishiguro
explores loss, power structures, and human dignity amid restrictive social setting. In
Remains of the Day and , we see the theme of duty also
receiving a significant focus.
Remains of the Day
explores the decisions Stevens, the butler, makes in serving his employer, Lord Darlington.
Darlington is a typical British elite who is also a Nazi sympathizer. Stevens' duty to
Darlington hall as an ideal bastion of British propriety blinds him to his employer's
shortcomings. This duty also causes him to continue working the night his father dies. Stevens,
Sr. also a man utterly dutiful to ideals of service as a butler, is, like his son, a formal man
seemingly unable to access his feelings for his son. Duty for both men have veiled all other
human impulses. Mr. Stevens' duty also denies him a romantic opportunity with Miss Kenton, a
woman who is equally good in her service but who is willing to at least speak her mind about
Darlington's anti-Semitism and her own feelings about...
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