Imaginative texts like Never Let Me Go by Caryl Churlchill give us a humanistic insight into the cloning topic. In this story we are presented with a world where therapeutic cloning is highly practiced, and this has become an ordinary thing to the society. However, this story makes us think more carefully about the consequences of such a practice because, on the positive side, there will be many advantages to having new organs donated to you whenever needed but, on the negative side, where will these organs come from exactly? And how will they be raised? In this story, the organs come from fully grown human clones that have no rights; these are raised to donate organs and that is all they do. These main clones in the story are Tommy and Kathy, these have been raised in a “school” where they were raised in good conditions. But in a conversation with one of the teachers responsible for them, they find out that there are clones being raised in horrible conditions in that world, and that seemed to be the majority of the case.
This text gives us a possibility of how the world could turn out to be like if cloning becomes a legally practiced art. Thus, making us more aware of the consequences of such a practice.
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