On The Anxiety Theme In Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro is a famous contemporary Japanese British novelist who was born in Nagasaki and then immigrated to Britain with his family when he was five.Never et Me Go is his sixth novel published in 2005.It is a science fiction about a group of human clones who were created only to provide healthy organs for human beings.The whole three parts of the novel are the memory of one of the clone beings called Kathy H.,a 31-year-old woman who was about to "donate" her organs.The novel is mainly about the human clones and human beings as the organ robbers rarely appeared.However,with a close reading,their hiding anxiety over the potential threat that clone beings and the cloning technology might bring about and their immoral behaviors towards the human clones can be found.Based on Paul Tillich' s theory on anxiety and Sigmund Freud' s self-defense mechanism,this thesis attempts to search into both human clones' and human beings' anxiety brought by the fast de'veloping science and technology.This thesis is made up of three parts:introduction,body and conclusion.The introduction part first introduces Kazuo Ishiguro and all his works generally,and then the novel to be analyzed in this thesis is introduced in detail.The body part includes three chapters.In the first chapter research on Never Let Me Go home and abroad are analyzed.Also the relative theories on anxiety and self-defense mechanism are introduced to lay a solid foundation for the following research.In Chapter two,this thesis tends to first find out the anxiety of human beings as victims of the abused science,namely,the clone beings' anxiety:the anxiety of death and fate,the anxiety of emptiness and meaninglessness.Then the anxiety of human beings as the science abusers will be analyzed from the perspective of the anxiety of death and fate,and the anxiety of guilt and condemnation.Chapter three carries on the idea of the former chapter and both human beings' and clone beings' ways out of anxiety are discussed with Sigmund Freud's defense mechanism.In the conclusion part the whole thesis is summarized and the era meaning of the thesis is highlighted:both human clones' and human beings' anxiety is the result of abused science and it works as a warning for human beings to reevaluate the usage of the fast developing science.