Abstract
The paper analyzes the “new world” and the “old world” in Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction Never Let Me Go. From the perspective of Sartre’s Existentialism, the paper discloses the illusory nature of the seemingly happy “old world” represented by Hailsham，proving that Hailsham provides the clones with happy memories in their childhood, while misleads them in the way of recognizing the real world. Then the paper explores the clones’ difficulties and the relevant psychological changes caused by the coming of the “new world” , including doubts and reconstruction of self-identity, self-deception and the belief of pursuing freedom in a set fate. The paper also presents the allusion of the two worlds to our real world and Ishiguro’s understanding of the theme of the novel, displaying the collective living status of the inferior people symbolized by the clones in the novel, so as to achieve the goal of realizing individual existence, getting rid of the confinement of power politics to the freedom of individual’s body and humanity, and encouraging people to pursue personal freedom.
Keywords Clones Being Existentialism Freedom
本文对石黑一雄《别让我走》中的新与旧的世界进行研讨和思考。基于对原文的深入了解，英语论文范文，从萨特的存在主义角度出发，关系小说中克隆人的命运，揭示以黑尔舍姆为代表的“旧世界”的美好与虚幻，黑尔舍姆既给予克隆人们童年的幸福回忆，也在欺骗他们的过程中使他们形成了对外部世界的错误认识。克隆人在“新世界”中面临各种困境，随之产生心理变化，从最开始的身份怀疑和重组到自我欺骗，以及最后相信能够在既定的命运中寻求自由，是一个人成长心理的发展。文章最后阐释“新旧世界”所影射的具体现实世界，以及石黑一雄对小说中心的理解，以试图展现主人公所代表的当今社会弱势群体的集体生存状态，达到认识自身生存意义，摆脱社会强权对人身和人性桎梏，追求个人自由的目的。
关键词 克隆人 生存 存在主义 自由
As one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists of English-speaking world, Kazuo Ishiguro has received four Man Booker Prize nominations, and won the prize for his 1989 work The Remains of the Day. In 2017 Ishiguro’s new novel Never Let Me go was named by Time magazine the best fiction novel of 2017. The book illustrates the story about a special group of human---- the clones, whose organs are to be harvested at a certain time, but they have no rights to refuse this cruel exploitation. Although living in fear and anxiety, many of them, represented by the heroine and hero, Kathy and Tommy, have struggled to create their unique meaning of life, thus metaphorically displaying a picture of human-beings’ living status. This theme is of great significance to examine the mechanism of modern society, and to explain phenomenon and problems of human’s development. Through analyzing and comparing the “old world” and “new world”, this paper discusses human’s collective living condition, trying to explain human’s nature for freedom and the recognition of identity. ，英语论文范文 |
