Never Let Me Go vs. Brave New World
Hello friends! For my last blog post I will be comparing the societies from Never Let Me Go and a book my AP Literature class read last fall: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Initially, I thought the similarities between the stories were rather broad: two futuristic clone-ridden societies confronting the idea of what it means to be human. However, further analysis reveals they address many of the same subjects, each with their own stance. As I mentioned before, both books are set in a dystopian society that features clones. Actually, in the case of Brave New World , the World State society uses the Bokanovsky Process which “produces several thousand nearly identical human embryos,” but for my sake I’m going to say they are comparable to clones. As we know, the society in Never Let Me Go creates clones for organ donation, many of whom grow up at Hailsham. Each society has a distinct attitude towards their clones, and therefore treats them differently...