An attitude can be defined as a feeling or opinion about something or someone. In Williams’ The Glass Menagerie and Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, there are several attitudes to the past revealed in the texts. These include escapism, regret, comfort, the view that the...
In this essay, I will explore the way Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Jennifer Egan’s 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...
The dystopian scientific novel written by Kazuo Ishiguro serves as a testament to the power of memory. Throughout the novel, the protagonist Kathy confronts her life’s losses by preserving her memories of her life at Hailsham and friends Tommy and Ruth after their death. Through...
A good friend is always loyal to you and never lets you down, no matter how hard your relationship gets they will always be there for you. This is true in Hailsham, Ruth is sort of a sidekick to Kathy but in the story they...
Art is a form of expression that comes from an individual’s creation. Whether it’s to be the creator or the admirer, the person’s interpretation is a true reflection of their soul. In his novel, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro creates a world where the...
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The restriction of self-expression, colour and language in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ could be linked to Kathy’s interest in art and self-expression in her youthful years, which contradicts with her later loss of identity in ‘Never Let Me Go’. Ishiguro’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ is narrated...
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...
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 Funder’s Stasiland and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, respective...
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...
Kazuo Ishiguro’s book “Never Let me Go” and Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” Film both explore a dystopian world which features its main characters as clones/replicants of real humans. But what does it mean to be human? Is it to obtain the characteristics of human features;...
