Never Let Me Go Individualism

The students of Hailsham show passivity even though they look for hope, because they lack individuality. The lack of individuality could result in passivity since people having difficulty understanding themselves find hard to set their own lives. They struggle to find out what they want to be or do during their lifetime and because they don’t have any specific goals or plan to achieve, they have no choice, but to live a life predetermined for them. For this reason, Kazuo Ishiguro, the author of Never Let Me Go, sets up his main characters as figures who lack individuality in order to demonstrate the passivity of a nonperson in his novel. From the beginning of the novel, the author portrays the characters’ lack of individuality throughout Kathy’s narrative. Her introduction to herself leads readers to regard her identity solely in terms of her career. And the reason why Kathy emphasizes her career as her representative can be explained with her own ontological problem that she lacks individual human essence, but only function in society. The fact that Kathy considers her career as her most representative, confirms readers that she lacks individuality. Therefore, Kathy simply accepts her life as a carer and never shows …show more content…
For example, the rumor about leaving Hailsham will result in death, prevents students from going outside of Hailsham. Students are tamed to stay in the boundary of life set for them and they never try to go outside, which means that they consider Hailsham as the safest place and don’t find any reason to go outside of Hailsham. Consequently, students are unable to face the reality outside the Hailsham.Kathy’s claim confirms readers how she is blind and indoctrinated to consider donating as a such natural thing in their lives form Hailsham. The indoctrination via education naturalizes their fate of donating organs and instilled