History and personal experience in Stasiland and Never Let Me Go Bronson Hill 12th Grade

The willingness of the characters of both texts to face truth and totalitarianism affects their ability to recall experience accurately. Both texts show that the subjectivity of personal experiences taints their historicity. Whilst Ishiguro frames Never Let Me Go in the singular subjective experience of his narrator, Kathy, Funder presents a multitude of synthesised subjective personal experiences. The differences between the personal experiences in Stasiland contrast to present the idea that there is both bias and universal history in personal experience. Thus, it is through a multitude of individual stories in a synthesis that Funder produces a text which explores personal experience and history. On the other hand, Never Let Me Go is constructed in a world of subjectivity void from history. Ishiguro creates a world with irreconcilable differences between Kathy, Tommy and Ruth’s experiences; thus, the objective world of history is cast into oblivion. Never Let Me Go, therefore, shows an impracticality to writing history by displaying the idea that there is no history distinct from subjective experiences. Stasiland, on the other hand, has a deeper exploration into how history and experience are related.

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