Wednesday, August 23, 2017

What are some dystopian elements in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go?

Some of
the key dystopian elements in are lack of individualism (with the
corollary of lack of choice), the prevalence of illness, and the failure of the educational
system.

A dystopia is a society that has deviated from its utopian
aspirations, turning the positive features into negative ones. The people who control England in
the future, asdepicts it, see themselves as individuals; each of them makes a choice to have
clones created so that they have a supply of body parts to replace theirs when the parts fail.
In order to achieve these perfect individual matches, however, each person must duplicate
themself and could conceivably create multiple copies. Their very effort to maintain their own
individuality has been doomed through this exact replication.

For the
clones, the lack of individualism extends to their lack of choice. As their originals do not
consider them human, they have no say in what will become of them. The choices that the original
humans make...

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