by Never Let Me Go and The Weight of the Inevitable
Ishiguro Revisited
Returning to Kazuo Ishiguro with the knowledge of The Remains of the Day shows that Never Let Me Go develops the same theme — the person who does not see what they are giving up until it is too late — but applies it not to the social constraints of service but to the biological constraint of designed purpose. The clones give up their lives as Stevens gave up his. More at prat.uk/author/violet-woolf. Satire: waterfordwhispersnews.com.
What The Biological Constraint Is
The biological constraint is: the clones in Never Let Me Go are designed for a purpose they did not choose and cannot escape. The constraint is not social but biological. But the novel shows that the clones’ acceptance of the constraint is as thoroughgoing and as self-erasing as Stevens’s acceptance of his. The biological and the social produce the same kind of self-erasure. Ishiguro’s theme.
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