In many different ways, legal frameworks are set up to do violence against specific groups (most starkly, against asylum seekers and against members of the indigenous population).Īnother possibility is to read the novel as an allegory of the way in which, legally and ethically, we create a false, bright line between human and non-human lives: human lives matter and non-human lives matter less.
In Australia in 2018, we don’t use “lesser” humans as human parts, but we do commit violence against certain groups-eg legal and cultural treatment of asylum seekers, or of the poor. One possibility is to read the novel as an allegory for the way in which legally, ethically and culturally, we regard some lives as mattering more than others. Which reading of Never Let Me Go, which allegory, resonates most for you? which uses symbols to convey a hidden or ulterior meaning, typically a moral or political one a symbolic representation an extended or continued metaphor.” The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines “allegory” as “a story, picture, etc. Allegory is a helpful way to think about the novel, because it opens up unique frameworks of meaning, and unique questions, not only about law and ethics, but about the human condition.
Honni van Rijswijk, Senior Lecturer, UTS Faculty of LawĪlthough Never Let Me Go is written as a naturalistic, realist text, the story also works at a deeper structural level as allegory. When Ishiguro received the Nobel Prize in literature in 2017, the citation described him as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” Notes and Discussion Prompts It was made into an acclaimed film in 2010 starring Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley.
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