The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas Analysis

Omelas is an idea of utopia. It is an imaginary place where everything is perfect. Utopia is something absolutely necessary to social change with a perception of something better,filled with joy so the chances of social progress is high. However, someone's utopia may cause others to lose their freedom. In the short story "The ones who walked away from Omelas" by the author Ursula K. LeGuin is based on a message that shows how society sees their happiness through someone else's misery. After building a utopia, the narrator suddenly turns it into a morality problem. The residents from Omelas put an individual in contrast to a number of people acting as a group, to justify a small evil for a greater good.

The people of Omelas are individualists and peculiar at the same time. They force a child to live a terrible life so they can see the
It is not easy to establish exactly who the good and evil people are on this point of view because even the ones who left did not make an effort to take the child with them. They leave the child behind. Walking away means that they are not involved anymore, that they are good for not accepting that, but they are still evil for not attempting to take the child with them. The ones who walk away from Omelas are just as guilty as the ones who stayed.

The child in the story is referred to the word "it". No one is allowed to even speak a kind word to it, so, though it remembers "sunlight and its mother's voice," (pg. 261) it has been removed from all human society. When The people from Omelas find out about the child for the first time, they react oddly. They do not react as any other normal person would react after seeing a child on that situation. They have been told that the freedom of this child will vanish all the great things about Omelas, so they think that the well being, the comfort of an entire city is worth more than one