Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro

Are clones the new human?

Science has been giving the opportunity to develop cloning without regards to moral needs. In this essay I will argue on the premise: What was Hailsham purpose for having generate a new type of clone? Is cloning beneficial to the scientific and medical community? Is cloning a God like ability? In “Never let me go” by Kazuo Ishiguro is set in a futuristic time between the late 1960’s through the late 1990’s on the country side in England at a boarding school named Hailsham. This is a place where the students were isolated from the outside world where their teachers known as guardians were always reminding their pupils of how special they are.

First let me give some over view of what Hailsham is. Hailsham was a

In Hailsham students are privileged to traditional schooling such as math, geography, art, culture. These special student were created for a purpose and their futures have already been decided for them, “Your lives are set out for you”, “You’ll become adults, and then before your old, before you’re even middle-aged, you’ll start to donate your vital organs. That’s what each of your was created to do.” “You were brought into this world for a purpose and your futures, have been decided” (Ishiguro 81). Humans have emotions, feelings with the ability to reason, and I believe clones from ‘possible’ (human) have some of the same

Suddenly there were all these new possibilities laid before us, all these ways to cure so many previously incurable conditions. That was what the world noticed the most (and) wanted the most. “By the time they came to consider just how you were reared, whether you should have been brought into existence at all…it was too late” (Ishiguro 263). During this time the world did not care much or even think much of the clones as having human rights, there wasn’t much concern of how they were treated. “The world didn’t want to be reminded how the donation programme really worked. They didn’t want to think about you students, or about the conditions you were brought up in. In other words…they wanted you back in the shadows” (Ishiguro 263). Even though Miss Emily and the Madame of the school was pro-cloning, trying to give some right for the clones, the sponsors did not really care, all they wanted was the organs. As Miss Emily stated “We were virtually attempting to square the circle” (Ishiguro 263). Human cloning for organ donation may prevent or help eradicate many diseases.