Never Let Me Go Dystopia Essay

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Dystopian Importance Imagine a society full of misery, oppression, control, and dehumanization; that is a dystopia. Most dystopian societies are characterized by conformity, a fear of the natural world, controlling propaganda, restrictions on information, freedom, and independent thought and a person or idea that is worshiped. The citizens of a dystopian society are often put under surveillance for all or most of the time, restricted when it comes to freedom, information and independence, forced to worship a person, idea or group, and are forced to live in a dehumanized state. In the novel, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, a dystopian society is shown where there are two main groups of people; the average people who live out their day to day lives very regularly and the donors who only live to donate their organs to the average people when they get sick and die after. This is similar to the dystopian based movie Children of Men, where the average people follow along with how the government dictates and the “Fishes” who is a group of people who fight against the government controlled society when the only pregnant woman in an infertile society gives birth to what may be the last child. The novel Never Let Me …show more content…

The people of this society are thought to be entirely infertile and very early in the film, you learn that the youngest human being has just died. Shortly after, it is discovered that a woman is pregnant and the government is set to find her. Even though there are scientists researching why society has become infertile, no one is actually ever told why. This shows how the information that the people receive is restricted. There is also a restriction on freedom which is shown through the government’s surveillance of the people. It is clearly shown in the movie that the government knows more that they let the citizens think because they know too much too

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