What is the motif symbolic of?
A barrier between the outside world
the trees hold these horrors that they don’t want to acknowledge
ominous representation of what the outside world will bring.
Kingsfield
Ishiguro uses Kingsfield, a typically dystopian setting, to reiterate his ideas about the callous othering of the clones.
- ‘you can always hear traffic on the roads beyond the fencing’
- Wire mesh fences (euphemism) - Recovery centres are not places of nurture and care but rather entrapment. Not only is it depicted as a noisy environment, but also one that is defined by restriction.
‘had to consult a map a number of times’ / ‘out of the way and awkward to get to’
Kingsfield has been placed far outside of mainstream society so that the human world do not have to confront the immorality of the cloning programme.
‘the way it was before it was converted, when it was still a holiday camp for ordinary families’
The former identity of the recovery centre reiterates all the things that the clones are denied: family, fun, normality.
Cottages
- Virtually falling apart
- Leaking gutters
Contrasts w/ idyllic Hailsham
Restrict themselves, by not seeing the outside world as somewhere they can exist - ‘we rarely stepped beyond the confines of the cottages.
Hailsham
- Dark fringe of trees - light imagery
- Unnaturally high up windows
Dystopian They - wider society - ominous
Open plan office
- Cozy self contained world
- Big glass front at street level - modest/humble dreams
