I'm not an expert in breaking people's spirits and making them feel subhuman, but encouraging individuality and personal expression and allowing plenty of outside contact seems an unlikely way to do it
The one thing I think is really missing and odd is that we don't see the clones having *media* contact, knowing how they are represented. For the rest of it––what I was getting at was the idea that people could be socialized into comfort and happiness with a subhuman status, such that at the end of the book Kathy can look at her life and say that she doesn't see why it was so much worse than anybody else's. I think that kind of acceptance does come from her having lived in a cage with fairly well gilded bars.
Anyway, I don't want to annoy you by arguing on and on! I respect your take on the book and can see where you are coming from. I am a bit fascinated by narratives that don't follow the standard dystopian track of resistance, so Never Let Me Go speaks to me on that level, though I'd hate this to be the only story being told.
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Date: 2011-02-19 11:09 pm (UTC)The one thing I think is really missing and odd is that we don't see the clones having *media* contact, knowing how they are represented. For the rest of it––what I was getting at was the idea that people could be socialized into comfort and happiness with a subhuman status, such that at the end of the book Kathy can look at her life and say that she doesn't see why it was so much worse than anybody else's. I think that kind of acceptance does come from her having lived in a cage with fairly well gilded bars.
Anyway, I don't want to annoy you by arguing on and on! I respect your take on the book and can see where you are coming from. I am a bit fascinated by narratives that don't follow the standard dystopian track of resistance, so Never Let Me Go speaks to me on that level, though I'd hate this to be the only story being told.