"'When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. That is what I saw. It wasn't really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke my heart. And I've never forgotten'" (pg 272).
The entire novel I have been wondering if, much like Brave New World, this was supposed to be a satirical book. This quote from Madame really made me realize that this entire novel was made to mock the world's current values in scientific advances no matter the cost. The world is so caught up in what we could do, such as cloning a perfect society, that we do not look around and see how unnecessary the changes would be. I have often wondered if it would really be worth finding a cure for cancer if it brought our world to its demise.
When I got to this part in the novel, I really started to see the connections in the themes between the two novels. Both societies are striving for a perfect way of life no matter what the cost, but neither are looking at the long term implications. In Brave New World, the Savage was the outsider who everyone feared. He thought his life was better when it had some chaos than when he entered the perfect society. In Never Let Me Go, Kathy thought her life was great when she was at Hailsham, but as she learned about the society she had always dreamt of living with, she was more and more drawn back by the idea.
As I type this, I realize that i have eight more pages left in the book, but absolutely no clue how it could end in eight pages unless someone dies. Here goes nothing.
Edit: There were twelve. Math is my friend.
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