The Remains

For decades, people have been capable of discovering what others value through the things in which they sacrifice. Whether it is time, experiences, or happiness, many people have suffered with trying to balance all that life can offer. In the novel, The Remains of the Day, Stevens, the Head Butler, embodied the quality of sacrifice to the extreme. He was willing to sacrifice his personal life in order to perform his job to the best of his ability. Consequently, he struggled to find the balance between work and leisure. As the protagonist in this story, Stevens’ values contributed to the themes in which the story presents as well as gave the readers a tangible example of how these ethics could affect the outcome of ones’ choices. Since the beginning of the novel, Stevens’ often spoke of what made a great butler: dignity, respect, and work ethic. He felt as though it was his responsibility to follow in the footsteps of his father. He came from a family of distinguished butlers who worked in the same manner as he had. Stevens was never submerged into the domestic values that others depended on for stability. He was raised to always put work first and foremost before any other variable…

that will never make sense. For example, Labelle found a eskimo graveyard, and all of the graves were open and the bodies that were suppose to be in them were gone. He also found 2 dogs starving and 7 dead dogs lying next them. My guess is that people were coming for them, so they left everything the way it was. That way the people looking for them would have no idea where they went. They dug up their loved ones to take with them and left the dogs tied to trees. My guess may not make sense to…

A look Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go novel depict a dystopian society where it happens to deal with the question of what it is to be human. Never Let Me Go tells the story of a society where individuals are cloned and excluded from the outside real world in order to provide organs for their normal counterparts and thus live relatively short lives. Though in the novel, the clones or students aim to always attain happiness and are conditioned to be content within their place in social…

idealized condition of professional indifference- his father. Stevens narrate a story that has been explained by his father and before Stevens at the Darlington House, he was also a butler. This story which is “apparently true” describes about a butler who had moved to India with his master and worked there “for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England”( The Remains of the Day, 37). While in India, under…

to use Paradise Lost to shed light on the relationship between Ishiguro’s clones and their creators” (214). She discusses the merits of religion and biotechnology in the context of the novel, stating that religion provides people with a sense of purpose, while biotechnological research can have both benevolent and detrimental outcomes. Scholars have also written about how Ishiguro uses these disputable topics, such as cloning and organ donations, to reveal aspects of humanity. Keith McDonald’s…

1. Introduction “The Remains of the Day” is a novel written by Kazuo Ishiguro. The novel was first published in Great Britain in the year 1989. The main character of the novel is an “aging butler” named Stevens, who is also the narrator of the novel. Johansson 2011, in his literary essay on Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, offers more details regarding the novel. According to Johansson, the novel is a representation of Stevens’ recollections from the days he spent working on Darlington…

Never Let Me Know We are born, we go to school, we work for years and then we die. Isn’t fate cruel? Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, introduces a reality in which characters are complacent with living lives dedicated to “donating” organs and then dying. One would expect these characters to start a rebellion, to run away, to do literally anything but be passive towards their so-called lives. How can one be so complacent with a predestined life? Ishiguro’s answer: Memories. Only through…

The Remains of the Day final essay As readers engage the book The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, readers follow the journey Stevens embarks on to the country where he slowly discovers the benefits and costs of serving as a butler at Darlington Hall. An American novelist Robert Stone describes The Remains of the Day as a “finely tuned portrait of an extraordinary spiritual imprisonment.” While Stevens’ imprisonment is openly viewed as a cost, readers are lead to believe this is true.…

As you read Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, you must infer some parts of the novel as the narrator leaves out crucial information. Both the characters and the readers are withheld from, crucial information that greatly affects the events in the novel that shape who the characters are. The purpose for the author and the guardians to withhold information from the reader and the characters is to mask the true identities of the characters in the novel, to establish a sense of individuality within…

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…