The “Perfect World”?
We grow up believing that the world is great place and bad things only happen to bad people. We are raised with traditions and religions beliefs from our parents and hold on to the things we have learned from them very closely. In the story “The Ones That Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin we learn of this perfect town with a horrible secret. Happiness and perfection came at a price, the real question is what are you willing to pay for that? In today’s world of social media and “reality tv” it's easy to think that people live these perfect lives but what is the cost? The world we live in has a long history if people being happy at the cost of other people’s freedoms.
The story takes place in an idyllic world during …show more content…
They were not naive though, they knew the reason they lived in such a perfect world. Occasionally people will leave. We know that there is no such thing as perfection and all things come at a price. In Omelas the price is a child. Deep beneath one of the building in the basement lies a child that is alone and hurting. Everyone in town has seen the child and is told why he/she is there the cost of releasing them. This brings a psychological aspect to the story. It raises the question “should one person suffer for the happiness of many?”. The child is believed to be the embodiment of evil. If IT is set free then the town of Omelas will no longer be the perfect society, the author wants you to think it is. But can it really be perfect if this child if left to suffer all alone. Everyone in the town must learn about the child existence, so they can understand why they get to live the wonderful life they live, upon seeing this some people decide they can't live happily while one person suffers so, and they are the ones that leave Omelas. Sometimes a child does not return from seeing the child in the basement and the parent realize that their child has replaced IT and they leave as well. After finding out about the child most people continue to live there lives as if nothing has happened. Tradition has …show more content…
The town of Omelas was a façade, the people weren’t truly happy because they know the cost of their so-called happiness, but they feared what would come if they released the child. Like social media for people today they post pictures showing their happy perfect lives, to get validation. The society we live in is more concerned with their own happiness than the welfare of the world. They speak of equality for all but reject anything that is different. The people of the town of Omelas are similar they are more concerned with their perfect lives than the welfare of the child in the basement even though they knew the child could be replaced with one of their own, out of sight out of mind. They don’t want to point out the fact their happiness came at the price of some one suffering horribly. The world was built on the suffering of slavery and the people fighting our wars and living in war zones. People fighting and dying for the happiness of others, whether they believed in the cause or not. Slaves were the children in the basement, beaten and treated poorly for the happiness of their masters. A blind eye was turned because that was tradition and just the way things were. Even today when officers kill innocent, unarmed, youths in America is deemed okay because an officer is an authority figure and they should not be questioned. In the city of Omelas the towns people would rather leave than
We grow up believing that the world is great place and bad things only happen to bad people. We are raised with traditions and religions beliefs from our parents and hold on to the things we have learned from them very closely. In the story “The Ones That Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin we learn of this perfect town with a horrible secret. Happiness and perfection came at a price, the real question is what are you willing to pay for that? In today’s world of social media and “reality tv” it's easy to think that people live these perfect lives but what is the cost? The world we live in has a long history if people being happy at the cost of other people’s freedoms.
The story takes place in an idyllic world during …show more content…
They were not naive though, they knew the reason they lived in such a perfect world. Occasionally people will leave. We know that there is no such thing as perfection and all things come at a price. In Omelas the price is a child. Deep beneath one of the building in the basement lies a child that is alone and hurting. Everyone in town has seen the child and is told why he/she is there the cost of releasing them. This brings a psychological aspect to the story. It raises the question “should one person suffer for the happiness of many?”. The child is believed to be the embodiment of evil. If IT is set free then the town of Omelas will no longer be the perfect society, the author wants you to think it is. But can it really be perfect if this child if left to suffer all alone. Everyone in the town must learn about the child existence, so they can understand why they get to live the wonderful life they live, upon seeing this some people decide they can't live happily while one person suffers so, and they are the ones that leave Omelas. Sometimes a child does not return from seeing the child in the basement and the parent realize that their child has replaced IT and they leave as well. After finding out about the child most people continue to live there lives as if nothing has happened. Tradition has …show more content…
The town of Omelas was a façade, the people weren’t truly happy because they know the cost of their so-called happiness, but they feared what would come if they released the child. Like social media for people today they post pictures showing their happy perfect lives, to get validation. The society we live in is more concerned with their own happiness than the welfare of the world. They speak of equality for all but reject anything that is different. The people of the town of Omelas are similar they are more concerned with their perfect lives than the welfare of the child in the basement even though they knew the child could be replaced with one of their own, out of sight out of mind. They don’t want to point out the fact their happiness came at the price of some one suffering horribly. The world was built on the suffering of slavery and the people fighting our wars and living in war zones. People fighting and dying for the happiness of others, whether they believed in the cause or not. Slaves were the children in the basement, beaten and treated poorly for the happiness of their masters. A blind eye was turned because that was tradition and just the way things were. Even today when officers kill innocent, unarmed, youths in America is deemed okay because an officer is an authority figure and they should not be questioned. In the city of Omelas the towns people would rather leave than