"All around the country, at this very moment, there are students being reared in deplorable conditions, conditions you Hailsham students could hardly imagine. And now we're no more, things will only get worse." Ms. Emily Pg 260-261
Just like in Brave New World (I've used that phrase quite a bit) Never Let Me Go deals with some difficult moral issues, the biggest of which is genetic cloning of sorts. Both have people who seem to have gotten in a little over their heads with this whole science thing. What started with good intentions has snowballed into a catastrophe of one group of people who think they are superior dominating a smaller group of people. This doesn't just happen between Alphas and Epsilons or Society and clones. It also has happened several times throughout history. The biggest example being the Jews and the slaves. In all cases the weaker party was considered to be less than human simply because they were different from the more dominant group. These dominant groups were threatened by these differences so they decided to either kill or exploit the smaller group. Looking back now it seems completely insane and inhumane to treat people in such ways, but one of the biggest reasons they were able to get away with it was because they made them to be less than human. By making them appear this way they seemed to make it acceptable to treat them like animals because in their eyes that's what they were. They took away more than just their freedom, they took away their place in the human race which is a crime far greater than murder or any other I can think of. The Nazis, the southerners, and this english society were cowards who feared what these people could do, and instead of working through that fear and making allies, they tried to destroy them. Of course these books are just fiction but if they had had a future I don't think these horrible caste systems would have continued much longer. History proves that it never works and it never will.
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