NLMG Flashcards
(17 cards)
What was the meaning for art at hailsham
was to be part of social good- something that enriched the clones life and gave it meaning confirming they were not just machines but had inner selves- Miss Emily was trying to treat the pupils as human
Kathy and her tape- creativity
art as an authentic and idealistic role, mark of humanity as she exercises her imagination from loosing herself in a story she creates from the song
what does Tommy draw art like
animals that look like machines- his pictures do not express his unique ‘human self’ but arguably an articulation of anxieties about not being completely human- he is a machine trapped in a human body
what does a creature imply
a creator who stands in for the godlike creator- by encouraging creativity the plan was to make them into human creators rather than things created
What does Tommy’s art suggest about being a creature
Tommy’s art suggests a would-be creator producing a hyrbid creation representing a corporal machine- emphasises own anxiety about being a created thing
What does Miss Emily’s scheme not do
does not challenge the cloning system, the attempt to ameliorate the conditions the students lives amount to still is a passive acceptance of a society which uses clones in that way
what is there an assumption about artwork throughout the novel
Expresses originality and unique soul of the artist and it is an outpouring of the romantic self somehow untouched by cultural or social circumstances
what is art not separate from
life and its flaws- culture is vulnerable to power and money to being appropriated for insidious reasons
Is Never Let Me Go a Science fiction- can that be disputed
- Ishiguro does not go into the science of cloning
- langauge is enthralled with euphemisms ‘donor’ ‘student’ ‘carer’ ‘completion’ ‘possible’ ‘defferal’
- no mention of genomes/helix- what organs are donated
- no authoritarian or totalitarian power which has introduced these farms
-reference to James Morningdale but hardly developed like Victor Frankenstein - system is institutionalised and accepted
What’s key about the epigraph
England- late 1990s
not a scientific refuge in a distopyan future
- Ishiguro seems to be resisting the ambitiously high tech landscape Ishiguro states that ‘genre labels never bothered him’
How did Ishiguro go down the route of using clones
listened to a programme on biotechnology and realised that having clones as his characters would give him scope to explore ideas as a convenient vehicle to help us think on what makes us human
What could Ishiguro try and state about empathy
it is the capacity to empathise which separates us from human and androids-Ishiguro could be stating a contrast
- Kathy is always trying to understand Ruth and Tommy’s feelings, is sensitive to their emotional states and tries to reconstruct what the other is feeling- notably emphatetic
What can we expect in the Sci-fi genre that is not present in Never Let Me Go
A resistance to the regime
- Kathy doesn’t question her role and instead takes a rather profound pride in her longevity as a caregiver
What is ruths line when she voices discontent at the system
’ we all know it. We’re modelled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps. Convicts, maybe, just so long as they aren’t psychos. That’s where we came from’
what has Kathy accepted
The ideological status of being a second class- second hand subject
societies unwanted other
Tommy’s tantrums at hailsham?
may point to a healthy expression at protest however these are inarticulate spasims
