Decoding Moral Ambiguity: A Critical Study of Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go”
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https://doi.org/10.31185/wjfh.Vol21.Iss4.1279Keywords:
الغموض الاخلاقي, الاخلاق, الادب الديستوبي, المنطقة الرمادية, الروايةAbstract
Morality is one of the complicated notions that humans, since the beginning of creation, have been attempting to fit into a box. The dilemma of pigeonholing the essence of morality and considering it a matter of black and white has recently started to fall loose in fiction, especially dystopian fiction. Contemporary dystopian fiction deals extensively with the grey area that bears no absolutes. It is this grey area that constitutes the concept of moral ambiguity which is a recurrent trait of characters in dystopian fiction.
Through the lens of moral ambiguity, the world is a chaotic place where morality is relative and characters are difficult to be labeled good or bad since they act on personal preferences and have no clear conception of right and wrong. This study aims to critically discuss morality and decode moral ambiguity through analyzing it as a theme in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “Never Let Me Go”.
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