Never Let Me Go Genre
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- Created on: 31-12-20 14:17
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- Genre
- Gothic horror
- Horror elements delivered in a subtle way
- "It's horror movie stuff" pg 274
- "tied to a tree with the hands and feet chopped off" pg 50
- Evil may easily go on in the places where we aren't horrified
- Real horror is the quiet acceptance of extreme dehumanisation or discrimination e.g. genocide not typical horror features
- Context: Jews in WW2
- Context: During the 1990s (when NLMG was set) there were concentration camps and massacres in Yugoslavia
- Horror elements delivered in a subtle way
- Science fiction
- Delivered in subtle way
- All medical advances in our society taken further
- Dolly the sheep being the first cloned mammal
- Supposedly the birth of the first human clone in the 1990s
- Focus on rights
- Bildungsroman (coming of age)
- About:
- How children grow up and enter the adult world
- How we know we will die and how we cope with that knowledge
- I: the role of love and friendship in the context of the constant, usually anaesthetized, awareness that we will die
- For all of us, at some point, the awareness of our own impending death becomes intense
- Resulting in us evaluating relationships and ordering memories to be left with some consolation for the life we have lived (People w/o families have different experience)
- For all of us, at some point, the awareness of our own impending death becomes intense
- I: the role of love and friendship in the context of the constant, usually anaesthetized, awareness that we will die
- Question of human freedom an why we accept things as unchangeable such as why don't the donors rebel
- I: the emotional world of young characters who accept their fate, and refuse to run from it, because they don't have the perspective or social vision to rebel
- what it means to face death alone and how this is inevitable, particularly in K's case
- About:
- Gothic horror
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