Exploration of Modern Civilization in Never Let Me Go

• 作者: 陈利华
• 来源期刊: 海外英语（下）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（5）
• 所属期刊栏目: 中外文学文化研究
• 页码范围: 226-229
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: I106
• 语种: 中文

摘要

Set in a highly advanced society, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Gotells a tragic story of a group of clones who are cre-ated to donate their organs for the purpose of saving homo sapiens'lives. This thesis aims to explore homo sapiens'living condi-tion under modern civilization revealed in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go based on Marcuse's exploration of Western civiliza-tion. By creating a future world where technological rationality is at its apex, Kazuo Ishiguro shows us that people are still haunted by mortality and no happiness is guaranteed under that kind of civilization. Then by showing how those clones face their mortality under modern civilization, Kazuo Ishiguro pushes us to reflect on how human beings should live their lives in this modern world.