Never Let Me Go Marxist Analysis

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What makes humanity and what makes the clones of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro different is that the clones, or students as they call them in the book, do not have reproduction capabilities. They are the same in the fact that they do have the same mannerisms and behavior patterns as the humans. The characters have these humanistic qualities, but society does not view them as human. They are viewed only as surfs or as the lowest scum of society’s class system. For instance, Kathy’s and Ruth’s relationship of how Ruth has a jealous streak regarding Kathy’s and Tommy’s intimate relationship. The clones have the capacity for emotions, but they display emotions and actions learned through limited interactions with other clones. Another argument …show more content…

The clones are alienated, which accentuates non-humanistic attributes. This humanizes them because being alienated causes them to adapt to each other. The topic of sex is often referenced because the clones do not know how to correctly procreate, “The trouble was, the books we had at Hailsham weren’t all helpful. We had a lot of nineteenth century stuff[books] … which was more or less useless. [Modern books] wasn’t ever very clear what was happening because the authors always assumed you’d already had a lot of sex before" (Ishiguro 99). This occurs when two of the "students" were found having sex, but in authenticity, it was nothing more than misconstrued information. In reference to being isolated in society, the case of Peter the wolf-child or the feral child, “Questioning drew out the details of the boy's life before his arrival. Confined to a small cell with little light, his only companion had been a toy horse. He was daily brought bread and water by a figure who never spoke to him, nor allowed his own face to be seen,” (Grant 1). Peter was isolated because he was feared by the village and his pseudo parent, Hauser, who cautiously kept him isolated to study him. In correlation, Hailsham is a testing ground for the new breed of clones who they want to pass as human and succeed to a certain

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