Dec 2, 2008

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | Themes

"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'' is the story of a Utopian society whose survival depends on the existence of a child who is locked in a small room and mistreated. Although all of the citizens of Omelas are aware of the child's situation, most of them accept that their happiness is dependent on the child's "abominable misery." Sometimes, however, a few people, after visiting the child and seeing the deplorable conditions under which it lives, leave Omelas forever.

Morals and Morality
One of the major themes in "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is morality. Le Guin once...