| Summary: | 碩士 === 高雄師範大學 === 英語學系 === 98 === This thesis aims to analyze Never Let Me Go as a dystopian novel. While utopian tales are usually set in the present to demonstrate a better possible reality, dystopian tales are set in the future to warn of an uncertain and hazardous future. Never Let Me Go invites us to take a new look at the multi-faceted issue of human cloning, through the lens of Kazuo Ishiguro’s unique writing interests and themes. It can be inferred that this issue is also one of Ishiguro’s transnational concerns, fitting in with his multi-cultural background. In order to place this novel concretely in the dystopian genre, Never Let Me Go is firstly discussed as utopia based on the elements of utopian texts submitted by Darko Suvin and Tom Moylan, and then examined under dystopian elements based on Krishan Kumar’s notions of dystopian texts. In order to advance the discussion on this topic, Louis Althusser’s notions of ideology and Foucault’s proposition on discipline and punishment are next utilized to help examine the dystopian constituents of the novel. Through a close rendition of both the ideology and discipline involved in the story, it becomes even clearer why Never Let Me Go should be read as a dystopian novel.
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