Never Let Me Go, By Kazuo Ishiguro

I am writing to address the problem I have with cloning. Therapeutic and Reproductive cloning is a waste of money and time. Why would you pay fifty thousand american dollars to clone something or someone that won’t be an exact copy? Every person or animal in the world is made for a reason, so why make a clone if you’re one of a kind.

In Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, while the genetic makeup of the model does have some bearing on the life of the clone, it is severely limited by the increased importance of individual experience in the development of identity and personality. In order to be perfectly identical clones in all aspects, mental and physical, every facet of the clone’s life must mirror that of the model precisely. While identical genetics play a very important role in not only determining physical appearance but also intelligence, as well as any predisposition for developing certain diseases and disorder, any effect genetics has on the mental development of a clone, the clone’s differing experiences throughout his or her formative years overpower it. Experience

Just because someone wasn’t made by man or created by two human beings doesn’t mean they’re not human or express human characteristics. Throughout the novel, the author shows us ways how the humans discredit the clones, basically reminding them they will never be like them and they are at there in the world to only be donors and that’s it. To the humans, the clones are there for one reason and one reason only to be beneficial to the society, while the clones want to feel accepted and envision a future for their selves but are reminded that it will never happen for them. The clones want to experience things that humans do and venture the outside world and see what it’s like but at the end of the day it’s just a fairytale to them. The humans want to make it clear that they will never prevail in life at nothing other than being a donor and a success to society. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go address certain conflicts and roadblocks of the clones through the clones versus humans motif, whereas the clones have feelings and want to envision their future like a human but the humans stay trying to remind them that they’re not and dehumanize them by making them feel different.

II. Thesis Statement: Today I will entice you on the myth of human cloning and explain to you why it should be prohibited.

According to a sociologist George Herbert Mead, “I” is one’s sense of agency, action or power, while “me” is a learned self as perceived as an object by the “I”. With that definition in mind, it must be recognized that the clone, whom I acknowledge with pronoun “she”, may be “Sunghye Ji” all while not being “me”. Even if I was copied to the very last electron, I would not view her life— as in the period of existence— as my own, since the consciousness that is writing this essay, or at least struggling to, would not be present in the clone. Since I cannot reflect on the behaviors and emotions of the clone through introspection, the clone holds a different identity. She could easily replace me, but would never be “me”. The psychological view

Scientists are eager to explore the formation of life, and if possible, create life. Like people in 18th century, people nowadays have limited understanding regarding Cloning and Cloning indeed seems to be a mysterious science. Nevertheless, lots of scientists assert that Cloning will change the world and has unlimited benefits. Under this circumstance, Cloning gains momentum and harbors a greater and greater influence on society. From a variety of aspects, Cloning shares a myriad of common factors with Frankenstein, including similarities between Frankenstein and science in general that are discussed already. Therefore, as what Victor warned us, we should take all kinds of future consequences into consideration before the global implementation of cloning, in order to shun the miserable outcomes Victor suffered.

Literature has a crucial role in configuring the nature and limits of the human (Bennett and Royle. 2009 p. 252) and what it means to be human. Both texts, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, challenge the traditional definition of the human. According to Oxford Dictionaries Online (p. 1), ‘Human’ relates to or characteristics of human kind for example, the human body and the complex nature of the human mind. It also states being susceptible to weakness. The characters, Frankenstein’s monster in Frankenstein and the students in Never Let Me Go, both texts fit into some categories of the human however differ slightly from the actual human by challenging the traditional definition.

The novel Never Let Me Go, written by Kazuo Ishiguro, is set in a capitalistic, dystopian society in which scientific advancements have greatly relieved society of their medical concerns, all the while, severely damaged their integrity. The exploitation of human clones for the sole purpose of implementing a sufficient number of organs for society has resulted in a change in their ethics, as well as their ego. In Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro uses characters to illuminate corruption in society, illustrating that greed in the pursuit of progress can negatively alter the mindset of society. By living in a capitalistic environment, one will develop a fatalist mentality in an attempt to come to terms with society and their

Throughout Kazu Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, he choices to depict children as outsiders to the world which can be furthered by the setting in Britain’s countryside because it helps give a sense distance from true reality. In the framework throughout his novel Ishiguro focuses on three main characters Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy. These three students are seen by others to have an advantage because they were lucky enough to be raised at Hailsham by the guardians. Over the watchful eye of the Guardians the children were able to grow accustom to being different than others. This can be seen when the characters all mature and grow after they leave Hailsham and become accustomed to life at the cottages. There newly found freedoms at the

One current prominent issue of the modern world that questions our ethical standards is the experimentations of cloning. Even since the introduction of cloning, there have been contentions for and against this procedure. A fundamental argument is that cloning is morally wrong and looked down upon by various religious groups because its equivalent of someone “playing God”. Science have made strides in the procedure of cloning by successfully replicated a sheep named Dolly. Instinctively, Man will pursuit the extent of its knowledge and test its boundaries, which will lead into discovery to cloning a human life. What responsibilities must we overcome, if such feat was to become a reality? Although human cloning has not been accomplished yet, I don’t think it is implausible for “A Victor” to exist within us and play God and eventually, create the first cloned human being. How will society accept a human created by bioengineering and not through a natural process? Will society treat a human clone subject like one of us? Or would it have the implications of the Monster, like the one Victor created, who suffered from negligence and recollecting abuse at the hands of his creator? The monster that Victor created came to seek revenge and

Manipulation of human form is a remarkable aspect discussed by Ishiguro who presents this powerful scientific technology as the main theme of the novel. In fact, the reader of Never Let Me Go gets to explore and analyze this manipulation as a form of cloning. The process of cloning is essentially constructed for humans to reach the essential traits of survival and eventually acquire perfection in order to increase life expectancy or even reach immortality. Never Let Me Go demonstrates how human kinds attempt to do any reachable process including closing for the sake of survival, in many occasions throughout the novel, this idea is thoroughly discussed when the reader explores the world of cloning in the words of Tommy as she talks to Kathy

In the short story, Ursula Guin writes, “we're a tenclone. John Chow's the name.” This quote directly shows that the ten clones all are referred to by the same first and last name but they all have differing middle names. Each clone looks identical in every way, except aht half of them are female so as to give reprisal for their needs whether they be social or sexual. Cloning creates the issue of individuality and a clones worth as a being, but as Dan Brock wrote, “Cloning could only undermine our genetic uniqueness, not our full individuality.” Again it is demonstrated the issue of a clones identity, harming its mind if it is ever treated as one and not a whole in its group of copies. This story tells of clones as only being a whole and not a seperate being, thus it makes them reliant on every part of this group to function as one which creates a considerable fault in this idea of cloning

How do you classify rather someone is human or not? A tricky question has many different possible answers, but only a few that could be justified as being human. Kazuo Ishiguro has addressed this topic in his book Never Let Me Go. A reoccurring question throughout the novel is rather or not these clones are considered a human being or just another science project. Suspicious individuals of the surrounding communities in the novel, believed that the students were not human, because they could not reproduce, they did not have any parents, and for the slight fact that what the students were going through was morally unacceptable. In my opinion, Ishiguro shows that the clones are indeed human, because of their artwork, which proves that

Many ethical and moral dilemmas arise when discussing human cloning, and one can have many positions for and against each. To understand the issues surrounding human cloning, one must have a basic

As the advancement of time, the concept of human cloning can become a reality as with the breakthrough of biotechnology. Human cloning can be defined in terms of formation of genetically same imprint of an individual. The child who produced from this process is a new category of human being that is a clone of a person who cloned himself. Many people think that it is not right to cloned human beings. People argued that it is wrong to create identical human being, and this argument is dismissed by stating various other arguments in the favor of human cloning such as there is nothing wrong if monozygotic twins exist, and clone is not the identical copy of the original human being even in those situations where clone is exact genetic copy because those clones are developed in a completely different environment. In this paper, I will discuss the life in shadow argument as well as arguments opponent to it. In addition, I will discuss the ethical considerations of human reproductive cloning regarding this