https://padlet.com/amcgowan7/q45cr5z9aspr en-us 2018-12-07 05:42:40 UTC 2025-06-27 15:56:09 UTC hello@padlet.com amcgowan7 https://padlet.com/amcgowan7/q45cr5z9aspr/wish/312393107 Authors such as Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley, Aldous Huxley, and Kazuo Ishiguro display how a fear of death can cause humans to act irrationally in a way that produces devastating consequences.

BOOKS display the negative consequences that arise when humans let a fear of death inspire their actions.

BOOKS display the negative consequences when humans interfere with the nature order of life and death.

Need for control/fear of death leads to artificial procreation and a manipulation of nature which has many negative results]]> 2018-12-07 19:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/amcgowan7/q45cr5z9aspr/wish/312393107 amcgowan7 https://padlet.com/amcgowan7/q45cr5z9aspr/wish/312402142 - feared so much they decide to pretend it doesn't matter 
- conditioned to de-value
- part of a natural order
- views of death are that it is "natural" yet their way of being born is completely unnatural
- why is the manipulation of one ok but not the other? 
- John freaked out by their reactions (the nurses)
- children eating ice cream in a hospital 
- our interpretation/perception can be altered
- arguably lose some of our humanity in pretending death doesn't matter
- irrational, dramatic to get ride of families
- no one can have kids
- either "sterile" like freemartins or using really strong birth control --> preventing a completely natural process

"the principal of mass production at least applied to biology" (7)
- describes their ways of procreation, in a lab

"Fine to think that we go on being socially useful even after we're dead." (73)
- their society is built upon the idea that each person serves a very specific purpose and must be useful in some way --> because this is such a major part of their life's purpose it is also a part of death's // very practical approach to death

"They learn to take dying as a matter of course" (164)
- their society eliminates the fear and pain of death through brainwashing and conditioning, they have nothing to live for but serve their pre-determined purpose in life, no family or significant other to miss you, they know pretty much when it is going to happen

dehumanized in depriving of significant relationships, part of being human is connected with people 
all they do is have sex and move on
no supposed to feel powerful emotions

each individual life is so de-valued because they can just manufacture a new person
there so so many twins many people are even true individuals

Savage is horrified by his mother's death

Because death is no big deal it means that there is no true love

not valuing death means not valuing life

]]> 2018-12-07 20:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/amcgowan7/q45cr5z9aspr/wish/312402142 amcgowan7 https://padlet.com/amcgowan7/q45cr5z9aspr/wish/312403077 - "Human” lives valued, clones not
- don't value their lives and don't value their deaths as a result
- what happens when we value our own lives so much and try to disrupt nature
- results (cloning) are inhuman
- clones can't have kids but still have sex
- exhibit human qualities but are still not treated as so
- feel emotions
- love for one another and fear of their impending deaths
- predetermined fate just like people of Brave New World
- they aren't conditioned the same way to abandon all feelings
- they aren't deprived of their humanity, they're just deprived of being treated as though they are
- clones have normal human lives full of human connection
- clones still hope to extend their lives through deferrals, just like normal people
- normal humans having control over their own mortality at the expense of others
- don't have parents but still have human connection

"Your life must now run the course that's been set for it" (266)
- Miss Emily reminds Tommy that there is nothing he can do to combat his predestined death/ he can do nothing to change his fate --> in a way this is more realistic than the people in Never Let Me Go because in real life we are the same

"If we were honest, though, particularly near the beginning, most of us would have admitted missing the guardians." (117)
- even though the clones have no parents, the guardians were the closest thing to parents they had
- they way the miss them and feel connected to them proves their humanity

"We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all." (260)
- they even tried to prove their humanity through their creativity

"'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'" (272)
- they've created a society that is really tragic in that it treats clones with cruelty and fails to recognize the negative effects on the clones
- the only serve one purpose for donations and are ultimately treated as useless in every other regard
- dehumanizing of normal people, the fact that they can treat people this way
- sweet dancing little girls like Kathy are the victims of the new world where scientific advancements matter more than her life]]> 2018-12-07 20:03:58 UTC https://padlet.com/amcgowan7/q45cr5z9aspr/wish/312403077 amcgowan7 https://padlet.com/amcgowan7/q45cr5z9aspr/wish/312404656 - trying to cheat nature by creating a monster
- Victor's fear of death and actions against that backfire
- Victor seems to care about the deaths he indirectly causes through his monster
- actually cares about himself
- worried about his own conscious
- thinks he suffers more having to live with the guilt than those who have actually died
- Caroline dies (must deal with death of mother like John in Brave New World)
- ironically when he creates the life of his creature, so many other lives are lost as a result
- William dies
- Victor realizes it was kinda his fault and begins to blame himself
- Justine dies
- Clerval dies
- Elizabeth dies
- so upset he makes it his life's mission to find and destroy the monster 
- denies women of their power to have kids 
- fear creature can't have kids, doesn't create girl

"speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror" (vii) 
"my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man" (32)/ "the beauty of the dream vanished" 
- he cannot possible create a person accurately bc they are too complicated

"I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms" (35)
- thinks of his dead mother after he realizes what he has done
- dream foreshadows the consequences of what he has done

"The poor victim, who on the morrow was to pass the awful boundary between life and death, felt not, as I did, such deep and bitter agony."
- Justine is literally about to die even though she is completely innocent, and Victor feels sorry for himself because now he has to live with this guilt as "the true murderer." 

monster is deprived of his humanity, result of his situation
"Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded" (69)/ "wretched, helpless, and alone" (92)
- the monster treated like an outcast which makes him miserable and lonely
- society teaches him that he is ugly and unworthy of love
- monster feels emotionally in a way that is very human
- the fact that he is so devastated by the neglect Victor shows 

"the appearance of death was distant, although the wish was ever present to my thoughts" (133)
- he started out attempting to defy death and in the end wishes it upon himself

"I devote myself, either in my life or death, to his destruction"
- ultimately becomes his life's mission to destroy the creature


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