While creativity is a general phrase and humans have always shown forms of creativity throughout history, there were some huge events in the past that have supported human creativity and made it more widespread. One example of a historical even like this is the industrialization of the printing press. The use of the printing press, “a machine that obtained an impression by rolling paper attached to a cylinder over the bed of type,” has made the incorporation of creativity into regular, everyday life easy as it could print 1,100 papers per hour. With the widespread use of the printing press, it became easy to print many pieces of work in a shorter period of time. This ultimately allows more people to access the different works and encourages creativity by allowing people to push the boundaries of their own ideas.

Because creativity was something that’s very important and valued within the novel “Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro, I think the industrialization of the printing press is a very important event in history that relates to the novel.

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Koenig’s double cylinder press made specially for the London Times from A Short History of the Art of Printing in England by Arthur C. J. Powell, 1877. From HathiTrust.