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Works Cited

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. HarperCollins, 1946.

Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go. First Vintage International ed., Vintage Books, 2005.

Popova, Maria. "Between the World and Us: Hannah Arendt on Outsiderdom, the Power and Privilege of Being a Pariah, and How We Humanize Each Other." Brain Pickings, www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/12/hannah-arendt-men-in-dark-times/.

Woolf, Viriginia. "The New Dress." A Haunted House and Other Short Stories, Hogarth Press, 1943.

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This quote shows the "two-facedness" of society that this insecurity of outcast can lead to: people will not stand up for what they truly believe because they want to fit into society. Bernard did not want to be even further isolated or lose his reputation.

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"Bernard ..., urged by a sudden impulse, ran forward to help them; then thought better of it and halted; then, ashamed, stepped forward again; then again thought better of it, and was standing in an agony of humiliated indecision-thinking that they might be killed if he didn't help them, and that he might be killed if he did ..." (Huxley 214).

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This quote explains this "vicious cycle" that I referred to and how the sense of isolation leads to further isolation in reality because of human's reactions. When people feel like they are not wanted, they act like they do not want society because of insecurity, which does nothing to fix the true problem.

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"Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising" (Huxley 35).

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These human reactions of jealousy or self-pity can cause humans to isolate themselves further, creating a vicious cycle; in order for people to avoid isolation and live in community, they need live kindly and openly towards one another, not condescendingly like Bernard does in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

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This quote demonstrates the other facet of the fear of inferiority: jealousy. She is jealous of everyone's happiness and beauty and wishes she could have it too.

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"She saw herself like that-she was a fly, but the others were dragonflies, butterflies, beautiful insects, dancing, fluttering, skimming, while she alone dragged herself up out of the saucer. (Envy and spite, the most detestable of the vices, were her chief faults.)" (Woolf 2).

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This shows more of the self-deprecation reaction to the fear of inferiority, but it also can somewhat show the jealousy portion. She wants everyone to feel bad for her because she is jealous of them and their happiness; she wants to take some of their happiness for herself.

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"But in her yellow dress to-night she could not wring out one drop more; she wanted [the pity], all for herself" (Woolf 5)

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I think this quote shows how this innate fear of isolation/outcast manifests itself in humans in the fear of being inferior or less than, which can lead to angry jealousy or depressing self-deprecation.

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"And at once the misery which she always tried to hide, the profound dissatisfaction - the sense she had had, ever since she was a child, of being inferior to other people - set upon her, relentlessly, remorselessly ..." Woolf 1).

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This innate human fear of isolation and being outcast can lead to humanity's utter dependent on others for approval, as shown in Virginia Woolf's "The New Dress"; this codependence can lead to jealousy and even self-deprecation when one does not reach society's standards.

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This quote somewhat analyzes my first quote that I chose; it shows what the clones were feeling during that "spider" moment. But it also takes a singular moment and applies it to everyone, to humankind, and explains the feeling of "otherness" that many cannot put into words. It explains the insecurity and troubling feeling that follows this realization and uses a great simile to help people comprehend this feeling.

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"waiting for the moment when you realize that you really are different to them" ... "it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange" (Ishiguro 36).

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This quote demonstrates how one of humanity's characteristics is complete understanding of isolation and being "other." It shows how people are never prepared to deal with the isolation thrust upon them, and the pain it causes.

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"But she was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders. We hadn't been ready for that. It had never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders" (Ishiguro 35).

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Paragraph #1 Topic Sentence (using P1 to prove that human's fear is isolation/outcast)

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Paragraph #1 Topic Sentence (using P1 to prove that human's fear is isolation/outcast)

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In Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro creates a dystopian world in which clones are bred to give organs to the "normal" population; however, society treats these clones as the "other," creating a sense of isolation and outcast for them.

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Reading fiction helps people to empathize with others and discover subconscious truths about themselves, one of them being humanity's fear: isolation. Thoughout all of this year's novels and short stories, but especially Brave New World, "The New Dress," and Never Let Me Go, fiction demonstrates to readers the insecurity of being outcast, and thus allows readers to better understand others and humankind itself and its reaction to this fear: anger and false condescension towards others, leading to further isolation.

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Excellent thesis, Emily! What's the significance of the insecurity of being an outcast... what does this fear lead to?

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Excellent thesis, Emily! What's the significance of the insecurity of being an outcast... what does this fear lead to?

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Reading fiction helps people to empathize with others and discover subconscious truths about themselves, one of them being humanity's fear: isolation. Thoughout all of this year's novels and short stories, but especially Brave New World, "The New Dress," and Never Let Me Go, fiction demonstrates to readers the insecurity of being outcast, and thus allows readers to better understand others and humankind itself.