The novel “Clara and the Sun” demonstrates a unique perspective on the world, ethically characteristic of the 21st century. The main character and narrator is a cyborg with limited knowledge of the world. In the era of post humanism, when a person asks more complex questions about his identity, this heroine is able to demonstrate quite authentic human properties. A person turns out to be a limited albeit emotional being, “complex and limited at the same time.” The detachment displayed through the hero’s android physical form also appears to be characteristic of people whom Ishiguro accurately describes as being “potentially lonely”. Humans turn out to be complex mechanical beings, willing to do “unthinkable things” such as creating artificial replicas of humans in order to avoid being alone. The attachment of the heroes of the novel to Josie and Charity in relation to her can be explained as a kind of program embedded in them. This metaphor shows that there is not such a significant difference between us and the mechanisms. This difference is especially blurred when the reader notices how much Josie suffers from her own intellectual improvement, which makes a person more perfect but less authentic, which brings suffering to those close to her.
The religious aspect inherent in the novel also makes sense to interpret through the search for some kind of mechanical closeness between people and androids. Religion and belief in a higher watching good eye is a way for lonely people to feel attached to something divine in order to give life meaning and hope. The heroes of the novel, as Mazin Zien notes, are trying to regain their good disposition by artificial means, the most striking example of which is Josie’s mother. In search of a solution to their psychological traumas, people turn out to be more unnatural and cruel than robots. Clara, bound to the sun as a God, is thus more natural in her faith than Josie’s mother trying to make a surrogate for her daughter with no real hope for the best.