Fear
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- Created on: 01-03-21 08:29
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- Fear
- Hailsham
- Ethos to give happy childhoods w/o fear or thought of death
- Miss L dismissed for disagreeing
- Trio valued protection so they could make friends, express individuality and creativity
- Ethos to give happy childhoods w/o fear or thought of death
- Kathy
- Strives hard to hide and suppress feelings, causing her unnaturally flat tone
- "I should explain why I got so bothered by Ruth saying what she did"
- "I don't know how it was where you were, but..."
- "I wasn't sobbing or out of control"
- Allows herself a little fantasy and then turns to face her bleak and terrifying future
- Chilling end, as I intended
- Allows herself a little fantasy and then turns to face her bleak and terrifying future
- In denial: Convinces herself she's looking forward to retirement after caring, knowing she'll be donating, both alone and fearful
- Shows remarkable absence of fear, but is yet to be a donor
- Readers expect her to approach being a donor similar to T
- K & T are selfless and their drive for honesty makes them better equipped to face own deaths w/o same level of fear
- Readers expect her to approach being a donor similar to T
- Strives hard to hide and suppress feelings, causing her unnaturally flat tone
- Ruth
- Manifests in pretending and posturing
- Examples
- She can play chess
- Privileged knowledge as a H student
- Examples
- Manifests in overbearing nature to others
- Afraid of death
- Perhaps due to her selfish nature and and fear to confront reality
- Afraid to accept truth
- Strong desire to work in office, find possible and belief in deferrals leads her to be dishonest w/ herself and R&C
- Manifests in pretending and posturing
- Tommy
- Manifests as uncontrollable rages
- Partly his fear which allows him to find the dignity to send away devastated K
- Frightened of effect that sharing "this last bit" will have on each other
- Moves reader deeply
- Talks with K a lot leading up to final goodbye like any other couple facing separation
- Unafraid of death, but of being conscious after 4th donation
- Chrissie
- Fear presented slightly more distantly as they're outside central trio
- voice was "wobbling slightly" when she asks about H
- troubled by a "notion which fascinated, and nagged and scared them"
- Different manifestations of fear in different characters mimics nuanced responses or real life, adding to their humanity
- Readers consider how all humans manage their fear
- NLMG is an exploration of the acceptance and/or denial of that which faces every human being
- Readers consider how all humans manage their fear
- Clones in general
- All have been carers so all aware of precisely what awaits them
- I doesn't need to have to tell us how frightened K is
- "I get to see a lot as a carer. An awful lot." pg 222
- All have been carers so all aware of precisely what awaits them
- Madame
- Afraid of clones as she views them as sub-human yet feels sympathy
- Hailsham
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