Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Utopia Essay

A utopian storyworld seems to be a perfect fairytale fulfilled with celebrations and beautiful citizens, however the city of Omelas may be missing a puzzle piece to this belief. The true happiness of a story world Le Guin attempts to create should not be loaded with conflicts and treason and yet the polarity she sets up between realism and fantastic is a dual problem, contradicting how an imaginary world like Omelas is supposed to be inevitably not believable. The novel The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Le Guin conveys that perfection cannot be described in Omelas as realism begins to intervene, demolishing the expectations of a perfect utopian society, and the trust narratee has in the narrator. In this essay, I will argue that Le Guin demonstrates the world of utopia is not merely an ideal that readers expect, but rather constructs upon the injustice of the rules applied, and the hidden secret of a tormented child living …show more content…
Happiness as described being “a just discrimination of what is necessary” is not merely based on technology of the luxurious objects, but rather the simplicity of joy and gathering of citizens. Even the children that are “naked in the bright air” and horses that “wore no gear” display the freedom and bliss a utopian society is portrayed in a fairytale. In a utopia world, there is an ideal goal and vision to achieve, similarly, the narrator describes the people of Omelas with a purpose. Although the lives of the citizens seem to be ordinary, they are not simple people, but rather “passionate adults whose lives are not wretched”. This reveals that despite the innocent characters being portrayed in common fairytales, the people of Omelas are not “less complex”, because they are “mature” and can accept suffering to assure their lives and society maintain cheerfulness and