Never Let Me Go Miss Emily Scene Flashcards
bedside cabinet
Chapter 22
‘my bedside cabinet. It’s quite a wonderful object. Ive insisted Ill accompany it myself. They handle it roughly. Its a beautiful object I had with me at Hailsham’
- PARALLEL TO HAILSHAM + CLONES LIFE
- ‘object’ repitition emphasises they are not human
- ‘I’ll accompany it myself’ - value on bedside cabinet rather than clones that are actually in the room
Miss Emily
deferral dreams
Chapter 22
‘perhaps I shouldn’t worry. It’s not my doing, after all… It’s something for them to dream about, a little fantasy. What harm is there?’
- DEMEANING - discounts the last big hope as small/little
- not taking accountability (contrast to clones who generally do NLMG Tape) ‘my doing’
- ‘them’ - dehumanises/ less personal
Miss Emily
jesus proof to enter heaven
Chapter 22
‘we did it to prove you had souls at all… Did someone think we didn’t have souls?”… “It’s touching, Kathy, to see you so taken aback. ‘
- DEMEANING/PATRONISING - ‘It’s touching kathy’
- contrast of ‘proof’ and ‘souls’ is material vs spiritual, Humans vs Clones, Fake vs Real
Miss Emily
lab rats
Chapter 22
‘in humane, cultivated environments, it was possible for them to grow to be as sensitive and intelligent as any ordinary human being. Before that, all clones-or students, as we preferred to call you-existed only to supply medical science.
[…] Shadowy objects in test tubes.’
- HUMANS VS CLONES, VALUE, LIGHT + DARK
- ‘grow to be as’ and ‘ordinary human being’ - implies trying it imitate humans and plant like verb implies lack of conciousness
- ‘students’ as clones, to soften the blow
- ‘humane, cultivated environments’ - clinical terms, dehumanising them human needs a humane environment?
- QUOTE ABOVE has connotations of animal/plant
Miss Emily
ship in the sea
Chapter 22
‘our little movement, …] we were all of us swept away. [a few paragraphs between]
the turning of the tide. I…] Our little movement, we were always too fragile I…] So long as the climate was in our favour, […] we were able to keep afloat’
- CLONE VALUE
- repetition of ‘little’ shows the worthlessness of the clones
- ‘tunrning of the tide’, ‘climate in our favour’ imagery of 1 boat against the whole ocean shows the tinyness and vulnerability, they are so fragile that thery depend on the whims of the crowd
Miss Emily
shadow master warrior
Chapter 22
‘The world didn’t want to be reminded […] They didn’t want to think about you […] they wanted you back in the shadows. Back in the shadows where you’d been’
- LIGHT + DARK, CLONE WORTH
- ‘repetition of ‘back in the shadows’ - emphasising the lack of empathy displayed
- ‘shadows’- only the outline of a thing, they are just in the shadow/the shadow of real humans
- ‘shadows’ - dont want to see them, undesirable
Miss Emily
magnus carlsen chess
Chapter 22
‘it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at like that. But think of it. You were lucky pawns.’
- CLONE VALUE
- ‘pawns’ - lowest value chess piece, sacrificable
- ‘lucky’ - has positive connottations which contrasts the fact ‘pawns’ are used for somebody elses gain, symbolises that clones are USED for someone else
Miss Emily
trendy shi
Chapter 22
‘“it might just be some trend that came and went” I said. “But for us, it’s our life”
- CLONE VALUE
- ‘trend that came and went’ - similar to the way Hailsham is a ship in the sea at mercy of the whims and feelings of others
- contrast between ‘trend’ and ‘life’, one is much more minor, while one is major, but for people about clone lives they are one and the same, shows the insignificance
Kathy
hailsham wouldnt be the same
Chapter 22
‘Hailsham would not have been Hailsham if we hadn’t. Very well, sometimes that meant we kept things from you, lied to you. Yes, in many ways we fooled you. I suppose you could even call it that.
But we sheltered you …] and we gave you your childhoods.’
- CONTROL, DEMEANING
- ‘fooled’ - euphemism on the fact that they hid the grisly fate behind them, almost a childish payful verb
- ‘ I suppose you could even’ - grudging acception, swept away like no big deal, shows insignifcnce
- ‘you’ repetition emphasises the gratitude they are supposed to feel for all these actions done, when the opposite is true
Miss Emily
afraid? obviously
Chapter 22
‘Is she afraid of you? We’re all afraid of you. I myself had to fight back my dread of you almost every day I was at Hailsham. There were times l’d look down at you all […] and I’d feel such revulsion…’
- CLONE VALUE, DEMEANING,
-‘ look down’ - privelege of humans compared to clones, implies superiority
- ‘revulsion’ - body’s reaction to disgusting things, saying the clones are disgusting and odd
- ‘We’re’ divides the clones and humans
Miss Emily
reaction to the NLMG tape by the madame
Chapter 22
‘a harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world. [.] Poor creatures. I wish i could help you. […] You poor creatures.’
- DEHUMANISATION
- ‘creatures’ - not humans, creatures, alien to them, dehumanisation
- ‘little girl’ contrasted to ‘poor creatures’, they are only seen as humans fleetingly
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Madame
