The
period in which 's 2005 novel is set is not precisely specified. There are references to the
cloning program dating back to the 1950s. The location is England. Cloning actually was proved
possible with Dolly the sheep in 1996, so Ishiguro is deliberately creating a scienceparallel
history.
Along with the general issues raised by cloning, Ishiguro
introduces the ethics of so-called "designer genes" through which adults try to create
genetically "superior" babies. The Morningdale scandal relates to a similar program, a
type of genetic engineering that closely resembles medical experiments conducted in 1930s€“1940s
Germany. Based on the Nazi ideology of racial "purity," with the eugenics theories of
heredity, Joseph Mengele and other physicians at Auschwitz and...
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