Ishiguro Repression

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Likewise, Ishiguro explores how love and relationships also encourage a rejection of repression in Never Let Me Go. Kathy and Tommy are both aware that their true love could facilitate a deferral, thereby allowing them to forgo a donation and escape their repression. When the two of them visit Madame with the intention to obtain a deferral, Kathy affirms, “Tommy and me, we never would have come and bothered you if we weren’t really sure.” The conviction and passion in this on the part of Kathy is evident, it is expressed in such an emphatic and vehement manner that the love she feels for Tommy is blatantly evident within it. The use of the adverb ‘really’ only further suggests the passion and genuine emotion felt by Kathy and reciprocated