Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro is a dystopic novel that creates a world surrounding numerous parts of life. The novel highlights human identity, being in confinement and the dehumanization of humans. However, Ishiguro was making a social editorial about our social and cultural world where we are faced with search for identity, human rights, minorities such as African Americans and Women that are dehumanized, authoritarian government and animal rights.
Nobody seems excluded from the cruel substances offered by the uncertainty of human personality; individuals appear to look perpetually to mean and reason in their lives. Reflecting upon the immeasurable exhibit of material we investigated this semester; I understood how much of the time writing, …show more content…
These characteristics include independent thought and freedom are restricted. The students were not allowed to associate with the outside world, reproduce or have a profession such as an actor, in the outside world. Students are perceived to be under constant surveillance. The guardians were watching to make sure the students didn’t escape into the woods. Miss Lucy declares “None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day. Your lives are set out for you. You’ll become adults, then before you’re old, before you’re even middle-aged, you’ll start to donate your vital organs. That’s what each of you was created to do.” (Ishiguro, 81) This quote qualifies the state of their environment where it is restrictive and they had to follow by the command of the guardians. This environment is very similar to North Korea where people have followed the command of the supreme leader. North Korea is very similar to Hailsham. According to Legal Mobilization for Human Rights Protection in North Korea: Furthering Discourse or Discord by Patricia Goedde, the United Nation has passed a human rights resolution against North Korea for right abuses in categories such as Restriction on travel, Violations of economic, social and cultural rights, resulting in malnutrition, especially access to information and Violation of worker’s rights. These violations of human rights are synonymous to the rights that were prevented from the clones in Hailsham. The guardians are to Hailsham as the supreme Leader is to North Korea. The people within North Korea is not informed of what takes place other than North Korea just as the same where the clones in Hailsham is not informed of what take place outside Hailsham. This is evident when Kathy repeats “I don’t how it was where you
Nobody seems excluded from the cruel substances offered by the uncertainty of human personality; individuals appear to look perpetually to mean and reason in their lives. Reflecting upon the immeasurable exhibit of material we investigated this semester; I understood how much of the time writing, …show more content…
These characteristics include independent thought and freedom are restricted. The students were not allowed to associate with the outside world, reproduce or have a profession such as an actor, in the outside world. Students are perceived to be under constant surveillance. The guardians were watching to make sure the students didn’t escape into the woods. Miss Lucy declares “None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day. Your lives are set out for you. You’ll become adults, then before you’re old, before you’re even middle-aged, you’ll start to donate your vital organs. That’s what each of you was created to do.” (Ishiguro, 81) This quote qualifies the state of their environment where it is restrictive and they had to follow by the command of the guardians. This environment is very similar to North Korea where people have followed the command of the supreme leader. North Korea is very similar to Hailsham. According to Legal Mobilization for Human Rights Protection in North Korea: Furthering Discourse or Discord by Patricia Goedde, the United Nation has passed a human rights resolution against North Korea for right abuses in categories such as Restriction on travel, Violations of economic, social and cultural rights, resulting in malnutrition, especially access to information and Violation of worker’s rights. These violations of human rights are synonymous to the rights that were prevented from the clones in Hailsham. The guardians are to Hailsham as the supreme Leader is to North Korea. The people within North Korea is not informed of what takes place other than North Korea just as the same where the clones in Hailsham is not informed of what take place outside Hailsham. This is evident when Kathy repeats “I don’t how it was where you