Humanity
- Created by: mimidollins
- Created on: 02-02-21 20:04
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- Humanity
- As children
- Desperate for love
- Why R develops The Secret Guard (56-7)
- Need praise and encouragement
- Engage in petty jealousies
- Each child is different
- K, R and T seem like any other child
- Manipulate each other
- Would they have been any different to those who manipulate them had they been normals?
- Capacity to accept abuse of others is human
- Difference bw abuse not as clear defined as hoped
- In groups define themselves by making outsiders of others
- Outsider status symbolised by window pane in N
- Ironic they looked in as though the workers were exotic although the clones are the exotic ones
- One of ironies that donors can turn friends into outsiders and passively accept unjust crumstances
- Links to overarching regret and title
- Outsider status symbolised by window pane in N
- Desperate for love
- Opposition
- "there would always be a barrier against the world seeing you as properly human" (258)
- Unseen authorities
- The Cottages
- Allow freedom
- Yes
- "no one would stop us if we wandered off"
- Allowance of freedom only comes as a result of a lack of intellectual freedom growing up in order to ensure their passivity
- "wandered"= uncontrolled/ unpredictable
- "no one would stop us if we wandered off"
- No
- “provided we were back by the day and time we entered
into Keffers’s ledgerbook”
- · “ledgerbook”-tracked like animals or prisoners (second-class citizens), lack of freedom
- Allowance of freedom only comes as a result of a lack of intellectual freedom growing up in order to ensure their passivity
- “provided we were back by the day and time we entered
into Keffers’s ledgerbook”
- Yes
- Allow freedom
- Caring
- Relationships and needs disregarded
- Chrissie and Rodney separated (221)
- Relationships and needs disregarded
- The Cottages
- Schools of "deplorable conditions"
- Viewed as sub-human to reduce human rights and ethical debates
- Being seen as human/better treatment of clones would end the donation program
- "they tried to convince themselves you weren't really like us. That you were less than human so it didn't matter."
- Being seen as human/better treatment of clones would end the donation program
- Clones hidden on fringes of society
- Romantic relationships
- Sex
- Clones discover complicated feelings of attachment and love come with sex
- Infertile
- These experiences characteristic of all humans
- Emotionally and spiritually human despite being a sub-class
- Love
- Can fall in love like everyone else
- These experiences characteristic of all humans
- Emotionally and spiritually human despite being a sub-class
- Complex and nuanced relationships a universal experience
- Sex
- What separates humans and animals
- Creativity
- Curiosity
- Ability to make autonomous decisions based on what you've learned
- Heidegger: Our ability to reflect on impending death
- the donors’ intense awareness of their death, makes them more human than those who take their organs for fear of premature death.
- One of key philosophical positions of 20th c.
- As children
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