The most recent book I have read is Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Never Let Me Go’.
~ This book relates to Marxism in the sense that students at Hailsham are supposedly sheltered from the outside world and are not on the same ‘level’ as them in the sense that their only purpose in life is to provide them with organ donations. The story is told retrospectively by a 31 year old carer Kathy H. set in England as she informs us that students at Hailsham were clones with the sole purpose to serve the outside world. There are references to donors ‘completing’ rendering them then useless to society. The students, being clones may suggest that they have no real identity to higher classes, theoretically they’re all the same, so these students may perhaps be representing the proletariat.
To further support this, Kathy H., asks the guardians, after Hailsham was closed down the relevance of all their studying when their fates were already predetermined, considering they would all end up becoming donors even if they tried break free from conventionality. the response received was ‘ it might look as though you were pawns in a game…..you have to accept that that’s how things happen in this world’ – ‘But think of it. You were better off than many who came before you.’ the symbolism in this text may be that the guardians represent the middle class, merely appeasing the working class however not allowing them total freedom.
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