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The world of Never Let Me Go is where the lifespan of humans is extended by several year due to the medical breakthrough with research. Where cancer is curable and research and transplants can be conducted with ease. The means to do this incredible medical advancement was by the use of clones, who are human-like creatures that suffer from their inescapable fate of being taken apart for donations and research. The school of Hailsham, however, has given the clones a humane treatment and an easy childhood, teaching and encouraging them to be creative before they start the training to become a carer and donor. This boarding school is hailed by many clones as a utopia for them for giving them the experience the same as humans almost. Hailsham however …show more content…

If the clones are “to have decent lives” they must “know who [they] are and what lies ahead of [them]” as warned by Miss Lucy (Ishiguro 81). By not knowing what they are completely, they continue to live a false fantasy that will be gone from them once they leave. Being kept from the truth and meaning behind the regulations and acts of Hailsham only leaves them left with the peachy atmosphere it serves, but anything more is kept under the table. The hidden functions of Hailsham have “been allowed to go on, and it’s not right”, which is why Miss Lucy attempted to tell them when “no one else will talk” (Ishiguro 81). This however gets Miss Lucy fired at the end of the year for trying to show the clones more than the Hailsham institute will allow. The reasoning for this would to keep the clones under their control and to have them obediently donate to science, instead of risking a revolution by clones to have more freedom. If a revolution was to occur, then the world where everyone is living to over a century will soon decline because donations for research and transplants would not happen because the clones would fight to not complete. In order to prevent a revolution, Hailsham seeks to blind the clones from the …show more content…

Nothing more or less than what was already offered to the clones could be done, such as the “dream of being able to defer” is something that was said to be “beyond [them] to grant” (Ishiguro 261). It is not if they are able or not however, the rulers of Hailsham simply do not want to give the clones any more freedom. To their views “how could [they] ask a world...to go back into the dark days?” (Ishiguro 261). When medical science is booming and going smoothly with an influx of spare organs and other body parts, to stop that and let the clones become human and live a human life even for a temporary amount of time. To let the clones have a quick taste of what it would be to be human and free, they close off any chance they could have to be like that. With this they even think that they should be appreciated by “how much [they] were able to secure” for the clones (Ishiguro 261). To give clones a human-like upbringing is being generous already to many, and even redundant, no matter what the clones could even create, they would never be granted the freedom or treatment as completely human. The art in the gallery the clones made fascinated many, but in the end, they are nothing but very human-like creatures to be dismantled for science. In the end the clones are all still tied to an inevitable fate from the start no matter

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