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* ClonesArePeopleToo: [[spoiler:The real objective of Hailsham's Gallery was to prove this trope. And... [[TearJerker it failed.]] Or, almost, it succeeded too well -- the world didn't want to consider that clones could be people, because that would mean giving up their safer, disease-free world. So Hailsham was defunded and the clones were pushed back into the shadows.]]
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* ClonesArePeopleToo: [[spoiler:The real objective of Hailsham's Gallery was to prove this trope. And... [[TearJerker it failed.]] failed. Or, almost, it succeeded too well -- the world didn't want to consider that clones could be people, because that would mean giving up their safer, disease-free world. So Hailsham was defunded and the clones were pushed back into the shadows.]]
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* OurClonesAreDifferent: A humanist angle is taken on the novel's approach to clones. [[ExpendableClone Clones are reared for their organs]], and may undergo multiple donations throughout their cut-short lives, until they are too weak to live. Interestingly, Ishiguro does not detail HOW clones are created, as he wanted to focus on a society that already has clones in a set position, as essentially farm animals. The most information we are given is, according to Ruth, is that they are made from [[CloneAngst 'trash' humans]], like prostitutes and criminals. [[spoiler:We later find out that 'our' protagonist clones are of a particularly special type, reared by an organisation that advocates ClonesArePeopleToo. [[DownerEnding In the end, these groups were disbanded as the world's opinion on ethics and such shifted once again]], and the story ends with Ruth and Tommy dead and [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror Kathy going on to fulfil the same fate]].]]
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* CloningBlues: Ruth has trouble accepting the fact that [[spoiler:she and the other characters are expendable clones, and has something of a breakdown over it.]]
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* AlternateHistory: Where instead of nuclear physics being the dominant science after WWII, [[spoiler: cloning was.]] This results in a timeline where humans can regularly live past 100 and illness has been eradicated.[[spoiler:Of course, only due to the medical exploitation of clones.]]
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* AlternateHistory: Where instead of nuclear physics being the dominant science after WWII, [[spoiler: cloning was.]] This results in a timeline where humans can regularly live past 100 and illness has been eradicated.[[spoiler:Of course, only due to the medical exploitation of the clones.]]
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* DiedInIgnorance: [[spoiler:Ruth dies believing that Kathy and Tommy will be together through the deferrals, a rumored process that would allow clones who can prove they are really in love to live out a few years together before their organs are harvested. It is later found out by Kathy and Tommy that deferrals never existed at all, and was at most a TragicDream created by the clones. Kathy reflects on this and decides that [[LetThemDieHappy it was best that Ruth died believing they could be happy together for a time.]]]]
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* TrackingChip: In the movie, the students have microchips implanted in their wrists.
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* TrackingChip: In the movie, the students have microchips implanted in their wrists. It is honestly more intriguing that in the book they do not have a tracking device. In fact, there is ''nothing'' stopping them from disappearing forever and integrating into society. [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror But no one ever does.]]
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* SymbolicDistance: The novel utilises this trope various times.
** This trope appears subtly throughout the whole book, in how clones and 'patients' are kept separate, as they are refused by most to be seen as human. Kathy imagines how the 'quiet country roads' exist just for the clones, while the big 'super motorways' exist for everyone else.
** Occurs when Tommy is having his final screaming fit, having just learned [[spoiler:the deferrals were a lie and he and Kathy cannot be together for much longer]]. Kathy tries to go after him but the mud sucks her feet down, and for a time she can only watch him from afar on top of a hill, [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror contrastingly calm]]. Eventually she breaks the distance and holds him tight, as if "that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night".
** Kathy, towards the end of the book, considers this between her and her friends, imagining a line separating her and Tommy from Ruth, regarding how Ruth 'finished differently' to them as she never learnt the truth of the [[FalseReassurance deferrals]].
--->"When all's said and done, I feel sad about that, and I think she would too if she could see it".
** This trope appears subtly throughout the whole book, in how clones and 'patients' are kept separate, as they are refused by most to be seen as human. Kathy imagines how the 'quiet country roads' exist just for the clones, while the big 'super motorways' exist for everyone else.
** Occurs when Tommy is having his final screaming fit, having just learned [[spoiler:the deferrals were a lie and he and Kathy cannot be together for much longer]]. Kathy tries to go after him but the mud sucks her feet down, and for a time she can only watch him from afar on top of a hill, [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror contrastingly calm]]. Eventually she breaks the distance and holds him tight, as if "that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night".
** Kathy, towards the end of the book, considers this between her and her friends, imagining a line separating her and Tommy from Ruth, regarding how Ruth 'finished differently' to them as she never learnt the truth of the [[FalseReassurance deferrals]].
--->"When all's said and done, I feel sad about that, and I think she would too if she could see it".
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* AlternateHistory: Where instead of nuclear physics being the dominant science after WWII, [[spoiler: cloning was.]] This results in a timeline where humans can regularly live past 100 and illness has been eradicated.[[spoiler:Of course, only due to the universe's medically exploited clones.]]
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* AlternateHistory: Where instead of nuclear physics being the dominant science after WWII, [[spoiler: cloning was.]] This results in a timeline where humans can regularly live past 100 and illness has been eradicated.[[spoiler:Of course, only due to the universe's medically exploited medical exploitation of clones.]]
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* ChildrenAsPawns: [[spoiler: Essentially stated by Miss Emily in TheReveal that the Hailsham clones were 'lucky pawns' in her plan to convince society that ClonesArePeopleToo]].
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* AlternateHistory: The plot is set in a time where humans can regularly live past 100 and illness has been eradicated thanks to discoveries in the 1950s, with the events taking place in the 90s. [[spoiler:It's also a universe that has medically exploited clones.]]
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* AlternateHistory: The plot is set Where instead of nuclear physics being the dominant science after WWII, [[spoiler: cloning was.]] This results in a time timeline where humans can regularly live past 100 and illness has been eradicated thanks eradicated.[[spoiler:Of course, only due to discoveries in the 1950s, with the events taking place in the 90s. [[spoiler:It's also a universe that has universe's medically exploited clones.]]
* JustIgnoreIt: It is hinted and subsequently revealed by Miss Emily that most people on the outside wilfully ignore the cruelty inflicted on clones.
--> '''Miss Emily''': 'So for a long time you were kept in the shadows, and people did their best not to think about you. And if they did, they tried to convince themselves you weren’t really like us. That you were less than human, so it didn’t matter.'
--> '''Miss Emily''': 'So for a long time you were kept in the shadows, and people did their best not to think about you. And if they did, they tried to convince themselves you weren’t really like us. That you were less than human, so it didn’t matter.'
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* OneLetterName: The characters' surnames are only a letter. Part of how the system tries to dehumanise them.
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* OneLetterName: The characters' surnames are only a letter. Part of how the system tries to dehumanise them.them while emphasising their lack of human connections.
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* SlutShaming: Ruth intentionally does this to a sexually active Kathy to make her feel like she doesn't deserve Tommy.
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* SlutShaming: Ruth intentionally does this to a sexually active Kathy to make her feel like she doesn't deserve Tommy.Tommy wouldn't want to be with her.
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* TrackingChip: The students have microchips implanted in their wrists.
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* TrackingChip: The In the movie, the students have microchips implanted in their wrists.
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* LoveTriangle: Ruth loves Tommy, despite his and Kathy's mutual attraction. Later, [[spoiler:Kathy is obviously pining after Tommy despite his relationship with Ruth.]]
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* TriangRelations: Elements of type four. Ruth loves Tommy, despite his and Kathy's mutual attraction. Later, [[spoiler:Kathy is obviously pining after Tommy despite his relationship with Ruth.]]
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* StarCrossedLovers: Tommy and Kathy, first coerced into a LoveTriangle by PoisonousFriend Ruth [[spoiler:and when they finally do get together, Tom is soon "completed".]]
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* StarCrossedLovers: Tommy and Kathy, first coerced into a LoveTriangle by PoisonousFriend Ruth [[spoiler:and when they finally do get together, Tom is soon "completed".]]
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* CreatingLifeIsAwesome: [[spoiler:The artificial humans are kind and compassionate, and so are the humans who try to help them. Ironically, society doesn't ''want'' them to be good - it's easier to justify exploiting them if one can pretend that they are soulless.]]
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* CreatingLifeIsAwesome: [[spoiler:The artificial cloned humans are kind and compassionate, and so are the humans who try to help them. Ironically, society doesn't ''want'' them to be good - it's easier to justify exploiting them if one can pretend that they are soulless.]]
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* LifeWillKillYou: The film version ends with the protagonist thinking about how ordinary people are NotSoDifferent after all, how we are ''all'' living our lives on death row.
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* LifeWillKillYou: The film version ends with the protagonist thinking about how ordinary people are NotSoDifferent [[NotSoDifferentRemark aren't so different]] after all, how we are ''all'' living our lives on death row.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Kathy herself questions this, especially at the end of the film, noting that [[spoiler:humans and clones]] are NotSoDifferent, but the latter will continue to be dehumanized and treated poorly.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Kathy herself questions this, especially at the end of the film, noting that [[spoiler:humans and clones]] are NotSoDifferent, aren't so different, but the latter will continue to be dehumanized and treated poorly.
