Klara阅读笔记5

Winky

Reader: Winky.
Reading Time: 1.5 hours
Reading Task: Chapter 5
Summary of the Content:
    After her miraculous recovery, Josie gradually becomes detached from Clara, who is eventually abandoned in a landfill awaiting recycling.After her "mission" is completed, she is no longer needed by the humans, and the once-close relationship is severed.In the landfill, Clara calmly sorts through the fragments of her memories, and despite the cognitive damage caused by the sacrifice of her brain solution, she looks back on her life with programmed logic, trying to understand the complexity of human emotions.The manager stumbles into the yard and praises Clara as "one of the best robots ever" and offers to find her a new owner, but Clara declines.This dialogue suggests that Clara's fate was sealed from the moment she was created - as a commodity, her value is attached to human needs and ends in disuse.
Evaluation:
    1.The double metaphor of the sun, which is both the source of Clara's energy and the "god" in her heart, symbolises the power of nature and the salvation of faith.Its personification as "he" gives it a religious divinity, suggesting that Clara's faith is essentially a mechanical projection of primitive human religious emotions.The fact that the sun ultimately fails to stop the pollution machine (symbolising the destruction of nature by industrial civilisation) implies a critique of technological utopia.
    2.Collage and Ambiguity of Memory: The last chapter interweaves fragments of the past and the present through Clara's blurred memories, creating a stream-of-consciousness effect.This technique not only echoes Kazuo Ishiguro's consistent theme of the unreliability of memory, but also hints at the tragedy of Clara as a tool to be forgotten by human beings.
Reflection:
    Klara eventually realises that the uniqueness of human beings lies not in the individuals themselves, but in the love in the hearts of others.She admits that she cannot replicate Josie because "the special thing was not in Josie's heart, but in the hearts of those who loved her".This realisation negates Capaldi's techno-utopian fantasy of the "replicability of the human heart" and emphasises the non-transferability of emotional connection.
   The abandonment of Klara by Josie's family testifies to the paradox of human beings: the desire for selfless companionship of a machine, but the inability to give it equal emotional status. Klara's tragedy epitomises human selfishness and self-deception.