Essays on Never Let Me Go

Kazou Ishiguro’s novel ‘Never Let Me Go’ takes place in an alternate dystopian world in England, during the late 1990s. The novel is essentially about a widespread virus that leaves people in need of vital organs. Test tube babies or clones were created for organ donations for the people that have been infected. When they...

Science and technology used in both the novel and the film, “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley and “Never Let Me Go” by Mark Romanek is used selfishly because neither Frankenstein’s monster nor the clones benefit from their creation. Frankenstein’s monster was only created to boost Frankenstein’s ego but once the monster was brought to life he...

Ishiguro’s novel, Never Let Me Go addresses questions about past, present, and future ethics and morals surrounding technological advancements and specifically, cloning humans. Using a thirty-one-year-old named Kathy’s recollection, narration is used to display the inevitability of loss in a preparatory school for human clones. Ideas are presented and remembered throughout the novel, exploring the...

Kazuo Ishuguro’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ is a unique, Dystopian novel that could be interpreted as a Marxist fable. According to Marxist ideology, the working class has always been exploited to support the Capitalist oppressors, and here the idea is carried through to its logical conclusion. Ishugro’s message, which has been clearly conveyed by the...

The film version is also narrated by Kathy. However, the yoke of a film narrative is much dimmer than that of a first person in a book. The Kathy of the book imposes her point of view, her vocabulary and her narrative sway. In the cinema, because the camera necessarily records it to her and...

‘Never Let Me Go’ is a novel written by Kazuo Ishiguro in 2005. In the book, we get to follow Kathy H and her two friends Tommy and Ruth and their harmonious upbringing. Kathy is 30 years old but already at the end of her life. The three friends go together at what they think...

The characters of Julie and Kathy in both Ishiguro’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ and Strindberg’s ‘Miss Julie’ are similar in that they are both ascribed roles in the societies in which they have been placed. The roles ascribed restrict the characters, whose limitations are based on their relative class, gender and time period. Julie’s aristocratic...

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; skin, hair, eyes, a heartbeat? Or is it to show...

Kazuo Ishiguro, a Japanese- writer, portrays a cloned protagonist, Kathy, reminiscing about her childhood at Hailsham and her adolescence in his novel, Never Let Me Go. Not only is the novel’s backdrop settled on fictional England with cloning milieu but also the narrator, Kathy, is notably subject to her memory of the past in which...

“Never Let Me Go” and “The Glass Menagerie” can be seen to be products of the society they were created in. In fact, the dystopian novel presents the past as an escape from an inhumane reality, while the WW2 play presents a poverty stricken society during the Great Depression. Ishiguro could be trying to explore...