Rethinking Utopia
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The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas, Ursula Le Guin, utopia
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In her short story ‘The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas’, Ursula Le Guin manipulates her use of language to reveal the necessary horrors that lie beneath a utopia. She initially invites you into a beautiful festival exploding with colour and life, but soon exposes the child locked in the basement whose suffering is required for the city to function. She poses the ultimate question: if your society was built on the absolute misery of someone else, would you walk away from it? Or would you simply continue to live and ignore it?
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