The pair of analogies look similar, but they do not apply to each other at all. For example, some people understand that the children in this story represent sweatshops in third-world countries, and the citizens represent developed countries. However, this is more of a literary association than a grim analogy. Of course, it can be said that the elements of this story symbolize real society. This story can be told without explanation.
It is absurd to apply a philosophical theory derived from a virtual story to reality. This interpretation, like many other stories, is oversimplified and put into realistic philosophical thinking.
If you support the imprison of this child, then you are a utilitarian. The story has been treated as a classic critical examination of utilitarianism’s philosophical thought experiment. They just crossed the beautiful city gate of Omelas and started on the way out of Omelas. Instead of going home to Omelas, they went to a place we could not imagine. However, a group of people, they went to see the child, saw the horror, and left. Many children grow up and act like other adults. However, if they showed sympathy for the child, the city would be destroyed. Many children in the city went to see him in the basement.
Many adults know the child but do not look at it, instead of using it as a creative motivator or as a reminder of their conscience. Because the child’s suffering made the city happy, people knew that once he was released and fed and warmed, the splendor of the city would go up in smoke. There was a child in it, and no one did not know the child. The door of the room was locked, and there was no Windows. However, the city has an open secret: there is a basement under the castle in the center of the city. Precisely like the utopia world in our text. There is no government, no army, no war, and no crime. There are beautiful mountains and fresh air. In a faraway country, there is a place like Tao Yuanming’s peach garden it is called Omelas. So in the last part of the story, people choose to leave the city. This story tells the life of Omelas, the happiest and most beautiful city in the world, but the whole reason why this city makes people happy is to imprison an innocent child. Le Guin’s, one question that catches my eyes was that: What does the story reveal to us about our happiness as a society? In order to answer this question, we have to first understood what makes up the society that we are living today. Le Guin does not give her readers any clear answers to this question-she only poses it to her reader by depicting the child as a scapegoat in the extreme.After reading “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. (A scapegoat is an individual who suffers in place of many-for example, the one criminal who takes the fall for robbing a bank to save the rest of his criminal team from jail, even though they robbed the bank together.) The symbolic scapegoating of this one child, in “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” begs the question of whether a society can be called “just” or “perfect” if it is founded on even one instance of cruelty and injustice. Like all people in “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” The Child is highly symbolic, serving not only as the scapegoat for the society of Omelas, but as a symbol for scapegoats more generally. It experienced happiness enough to understand that it is now suffering. I will be good!” Even though it has been objectified through torturous neglect for years, the child still remembers sunlight and its mother’s voice-thus, it remembers what it was like to be treated like a human being well enough to understand that its current state is inhuman. Even though the child is locked in perpetual suffering, it still protests its situation, pleading with its jailors: “Please let me out. Its body is underdeveloped and covered in festering sores. The child is malnourished and un-socialized. The narrator exclusively uses the pronoun “it” when describing the child, reinforcing the child’s status as an object rather than a subject in its own right. The reader never learns the child’s personal information, in part because it barely has any Omelas has denied it the opportunity to develop personhood. Further, every citizen must confront the truth of the child’s miserable existence, as learning about the child is a type of coming-of-age ritual in Omelas. Citizens are only able to experience their happiness because this child suffers. The Child is the awful, shameful secret of Omelas-the secret that everyone knows.
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