Dehumanized human cloning in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go

Abstract

This research aims to explain the author's worldview in Never Let Me Go. Never Let Me Go, as science fiction usually attempts to explain cloning technology. Ishiguro said the cloning and harvesting organs took place in the novel without explaining how it works. This thesis uses qualitative research because the data are from quotes and several stories from the novel. The data is divided into two: primary data and secondary data. Primary data is taken from the novel Never Let Me Go. Reading and understanding the content of the novel Never Let Me Go is essential to find and collecting the needed data for the research. Secondary data is accepted from other textbooks, journal articles, and websites relevant to this research. As a result, it can be concluded that Ishiguro wrote Never Let Me Go, asking what makes them become an actual human. One of the things in this novel talks about if clones can create beautiful art. The one important thing is that human clones exist to show others that they have organs. Harvesting the human clone's vital organs is like killing farm animals like cows and pigs because the purpose of cows or pigs is to be killed.