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A five page paper which looks at the way in which the concept of silence is used in Ishiguro's 'The Remains of the Day' with particular reference to the development of Stevens' character.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JL5_JL2remains.rtf
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the student could note about the use of silence in The Remains of the Day is that the concept of silence itself does not refer only to a lack of
sound, or even to a lack of physical speech, but also to the way in which ideas and concepts are deliberately left unsaid and concealed in silence.
Stevens, the butler, exemplifies the extent to which the British aristocracy was
founded on the dignity and deliberate silence of their servants. The upper echelons of British society considered themselves to have an unquestioned superiority over the inhabitants of other countries, and
saw themselves as being at the top of a pyramidal social structure which dominated the rest of the population.
Against this background of an unshakeable belief in their own national superiority, and a strong sense
of the immutability of a social order in which both church and state decreed that everyone had their own, unalterable, place in the system, it was hardly surprising that those
who were in service to the aristocratic families came to define themselves through their identification with those families, to the extent of losing their own identity in that of their
masters and their masters beliefs and ways of thinking.
Servants were, in effect, expected to belong body and soul to those whom they served, and for the vast majority of them this was nothing more or less than the
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