NEVER LET ME GO: NOSTALGIA FOR THE REAL

Abstract

A desire or requirement for the past denotes as nostalgia. This may be whatever that is no longer reachable owed to the passage of time. In literature, nostalgia is used as a manner of denoting to a universal as well as a definite concern in the previous and earlier happenings. It can be equally depraved and virtuous about the occurrences or happenings that occurred in someone’s lifespan. And the reminiscences which had foremost influence on a person remains on the cognizant level of the individual’s mind. It can simply be recovered, remembered, carried out, or evoked with the passage of time. But in the unconscious of the mind the main portion of it become restrained or even suppressed with the passage of time. As explained by Freud’s “idea of repression it is because of frustrating to overlook or disremember the disturbing past happenings, unclear encounters and unadmitted wishes. Consequently to carry out the beliefs and recollections of occurrences and events form equally unconscious and conscious kingdom of human mind nostalgia is linked with the remembrance of the past. One’s remembrance has been twisted out as it is a gushy desire for the past. In this novel, Never Let Me Go, maximum of Ishiguro’s characters brood over their sentimental, shocking past and predictable painful future. In Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro the researcher use psychoanalytic lens to reveal the gulf underneath our misleading perception of linking with the world and also highlight how nostalgia plays a main part in making an emotional force.