Category: Never Let Me Go

What do Stasiland and Never Let Me Go suggest about social systems that depend on disempowering people? Plan: Control and Surveillance Different worlds set up by both regimes Rebellion and Fight Back In both Anna Funders Stasiland and Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go, respective regimes employ various methods to control its citizens. In many…

Has the arrival of a new science era created ethical anxiety about cloning? What is Fear? Is it an emotion; thought or perhaps an illusion? The New Scientist this week will explore the value of human life, or rather, a cloned human life by examining two different texts. Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go and…

Both Ishiguro and Williams explore many aspects of the past, including how it defines and contours their characters identities. Characters like Amanda and Kathy dwell on their past to bring them comfort and an escape from the depressing reality of their situation. Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro portrays the past to be a memory that…

An attitude can be defined as a feeling or opinion about something or someone. In Williams The Glass Menagerie and Ishiguros Never Let Me Go, there are several attitudes to the past revealed in the texts. These include escapism, regret, comfort, the view that the past is difficult to leave behind and comes round full…

In this essay, I will explore the way Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go and Jennifer Egans Black Box deal with genre and identity. Ishiguro combines science-fiction and bildungsroman in his work to depict the touching story of a human clone, Kathy H, as she develops from childhood and faces her fatal destiny as an…