The loyal butler in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of The Day.docx

The loyal butler in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of The DayAbstractThis essay talks about Stevens, the main character of The Remains of The Day and his remarkable characteristic of loyalty. Three reasons for his loyalty, including some of his special opinions, his professional dignity and the Japanese Samurai Spirit are discussed. Authors personal comments, as well as the results of Stevens’s loyalty is also discusses in the essay.IntroductionStevens , who devoted all his life to the butler career and his master, Lord Darlington is a somewhat pathetic character in Kazuo Ishiguro’s book----The Remains of The Day. The most remarkable characteristic of Stevens is, to me, loyalty, which assures his professional success but also leads to his abnormal personality and cold life. So, in this small essay, l will focus on Stevens’s loyalty and talk about the reason for, the result of and my personal comments on his loyalty.ReasonsStevens’s loyalty can be divided into two parts, that is his loyalty to his career and to Lord Darlington. The first reason for his loyalty can be found in Stevens’s opinion that normal people, like a butler, are not at the position to understand the world or participate in the political affairs , so the only way for him to make our world better is to serve a gentleman, through whom he can influence the world indirectly. And to Stevens, Lord Darlington is the exact gentleman because he is at ‘the hub of the wheel’ and ‘history could well be made under Darlington Hall’s roof ‘ through those secret or public meetings. Motivated by such an honorable reason, Stevens relates his career with the fate of his country even the world closely, so his loyalty is understandable. As Nicolas Berdyaev said, people willingly devote themselves to the national construction and long for country’s protection, but we are still worried about not devoting all our loyalty. [1]The second reason for Stevens’s loyalty can be seen in his understand of ‘professional dignity’. As