Exploration of Modern Civilization in Never Let Me Go

Set in a highly advanced society, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go tells a tragic story of a group of clones who are created to donate their organs for the purpose of saving homo sapiens' lives. This thesis aims to explore homo sapiens' living condition under modern civilization revealed in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go based on Marcuse's exploration of Western civilization. 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.