Inhumane In Jane Rogers's The Testament Of Jessie Lamb

The next generation of society is often a thing both taken into consideration with utmost importance at times, while others disregarded because of its non-influential impact on our lives however that does not mean it is not a vital aspect of our future and should be considered as a species' top priority. Dystopian texts are an example of the extent in which society must endeavour to save it and The Testament of Jessie Lamb, a novel written by Jane Rogers, is no exception. where immoral actions are taken to preserve the next generation from a man-made pandemic designed to halt the existence of future generations. Throughout the character impressions, feelings and the world moulded by Jane Rogers it is clear just how accurate he representation of scientific

However at what point does the moral boundary and sense of inhumane begin to be less important than the impact of the processes, this is demonstrated in The Testament of Jessie Lamb where in order to give birth to new life one must be subjected to a parasitic experience, the pregnancy triggers a chemical reaction which rots the brain, slowly killing the mother. During a conversation between Baz and Jessie, Baz exclaims "Then they are going to put them inside women who'll get diseased and die, and grow out of them there like-like parasites." To undergo a parasitic experience such as that is clearly immoral however in the novel such morals are disregarded as society tries to mask the process as a heroic action in attempt to keep the general populations support. If a society is willing to undergo such an experience to preserve the survival of their descendants then that truly displays the extreme in which one would in correlation to real life given just how similar the situation would