Utopian

In Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, the structured confining atmosphere is conveyed fairly nicely. The donors have one purpose which is to harvest their organs and eventually complete, to pass on. They are seen as a utility on behalf of other people’s survival. This word allegory, can be connected to the word utopian in this context. Never Let Me Go is an allegory for a utopian society. Utopia means modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect; idealistic. In a utopian society, no objections are made, no questions are asked. There is a sense of conformity with no struggle. The donors just do what they are told. In this society, the leaders have positions to make important decisions which are enforced and followed. In a utopian society, everything is followed which creates a state of perfection. The argument in this scenario wins the good of the many outweigh the good of the few and so for this a subculture of human livestock is created. It implies that one person is more valuable than another. In a broader sense the donors are a mirror to the plight of all domesticated animals, whose entire existence is dependent on their use by others. Speciesism arguably originated in animal domestication and thus is infinitely more entrenched in our culture. In Never Let Me Go, there is a certain kind of power which shows that the donors have nothing that can save them- not love, art, or beauty; Resistance is futile. And that is why there is no fighting, because they are outnumbered. Ishiguro’s novels often end without any sense of resolution.

Works Cited

“Utopian.” Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam webster.com/dictionary/utopian.