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4.1 Good Will Revealed by Choices ............................ 47

4.1.1 Clones and Cyborgs Choices of Self-sacrifice ........................... 47

4.1.2 Human Beings’ Choices of Selfishness ........................ 51

CONCLUSION ............................ 61

Chapter Four GOOD WILL

4.1 Good Will Revealed by Choices

Good will can be revealed by choices.They were benevolent choices.Benevolentchoices were mainly choices that clone students and Klara made and reflected their kindhumanity,like students’choices of donation and completion of their lives,Klara’schoice of sacrificing herself to save Josie.Clone students and Klara’s choiceundoubtfully reveal their good will.

4.1.1 Clones and Cyborgs Choices of Self-sacrifice

In Never Let Me Go,clone students presented a submissive acceptance of their fate.They learned about their mission of donation from they were young.They didn’t escapefrom it or fight against human beings.It was simply accepted and the decision wasmade by them to complete it on their own.Clone students were prohibited to smoke from a very young age.Miss Lucy explained that students were special.They shouldkeep themselves well and healthy inside.So they can’t smoke.It made clones knowtheir difference from guardians.Later,gradually,they became aware that they woulddonate someday,but they did not take it seriously at the time.

CONCLUSION

Kazuo Ishiguro’s posthuman writing about human nature can be concludedfollowing the analysis of the emotion,creation and appreciation of arts and good will.Inthe era of posthuman,Kazuo Ishiguro emphasizes that human beings can’t lose thedistinctive nature of emotion,creation and appreciation of art and good will.In NeverLet Me Go and Klara and the Sun,clones and cyborgs possess deeper and purer emotionthan human beings.Clones and Klara attach more importance to the creation andappreciation of art than human beings.Clone students and Klara’s kindness andgoodness are better than human beings.Clones and cyborgs are like mirrors,reflectingthe distinctive human natures that make us humans.However,human beings kill andabandon clones and cyborgs that possess the precious and special nature of humans.Actually,what human beings kill and discard are these unique and valuable humannature in the posthuman era.Human beings force these clone students to donate theirorgans.Klara is discarded at the Yard after her utilization has expired.In fact,humanbeings are losing the emotion of love,nostalgia,desire and goodness of humanity.Exactly what Kazuo Ishiguro emphasizes is the unique human nature embodied byclones and Klara.

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