Never Let Me Go Dehumanization Essay

Dehumanization in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is a dystopian novel that focuses mainly on the story of three young people: Kathy, Tommy and Ruth. The reception of the novel has been rather mixed. Some critics describe the novel as All three of them are considered the novel as quasi science-fiction full of plot holes(New Yorker Louis Menand). While others praised Ishiguro for the horror elements contained in the story(Ramsey Campbell) The three main characters in the novel are copies of another three people. In other words, they are organ donors, clones of their original self’s. In the Ishiguro’s world the technology advanced so much it is possible to clone people in order to prolong the health and life of a human being. The clones are brought up only for one purpose, to donor their organs. Such reality creates a moral conflict. The advancement in

Some claim that so called reproductive cloning and cloning for biomedical research can lead to serious abnormalities and birth defects(Sandel, 241). The defenders of liberal eugenics argue that parents should be free to enhance the genetic traits of their children for the sake of improving their life prospects(Agar 1999). The division among the people on skeptics and enthusiasts of cloning somehow create an atmosphere of taboo around the topic. In Ishiguro’s dystopia, technology is so well developed that cloning finally becomes a reality. All moral dilemmas have been denied and no one cares anymore about the fate of those who became organ donors. Clones have only one purpose of their existence, to be organ donors to the people they are cloned from. The whole society adapted to the situation where one life exists only in order to prolong another life. The process is so deeply rooted among the people that even clones refer how many transplantation some cloned people