How Does Omelas Show Guilt
The Ones Who Walk Away Form Guilt
You don’t feel guilt or anger for the suffering and troubles of complete strangers, but you do feel guilt and anger for the suffering of your family, friends, and your own self. You only care about the people close to you. This is the same in the almost perfect city of Omelas. The ones who stay don’t feel guilt over anything. Those in Omelas who stay are unjust for they feel no guilt over the wrongs they commit to the child for their personal gain. To remove the guilt they fell from themselves they dehumanize the child. They change it into an object or a beast, which plagues their city or a stain upon their otherwise perfect city. The ones who stayed dehumanize the child so they feel no guilt for what they …show more content…
He is treated like an animal because his living conditions are similar to a zoo. People come and see him when they want “a person or, several people, are there”(17). The child is show off like a caged animal. Since they show him off as a caged animal they keep him in some thing simulate to a cage. He lives in a small room about “three paces long and two wide”(17), which is about the same length of a caged for an animal. Some animal cages are bigger and will fit the animal but when the animal is being inhumanly treated he get about the same amount of room that the child is force to live in. Finally even the people who come to watch or see the child find the conditions disgusting, like the child is a savage animal who cant live in a decent environment. The look on with “frightened, disgusted eyes”(17) at the child and the conditions that he is forced to live in. Though they could be looking at how the child is being treated with the “disgusted eyes”(17), they are more disgusted by how the child is disfigured and how it is sitting in its own …show more content…
They leave in that rage not because of how the child is being treated but how this problem has to be with there city, how they have to deal with it. Also “they fell disgust”(17) towards the child for it staining there city. Sure they could feel anger and disgust towards the treatment and the conditions towards the child, but then why wouldn’t they try to help the child. Why couldn’t they find another way? Also if they truly felt bad about what happened to the boy and how he was treated, they wouldn’t just cope with the problem then push it to the back of their memories. If they feel guilty about the child then why would they put the child under ground? Why would they put it somewhere where not much natural light could get to it? They put the child under the ground so that they didn’t have to see it so they could hide it and then live their lives with out thinking about the
You don’t feel guilt or anger for the suffering and troubles of complete strangers, but you do feel guilt and anger for the suffering of your family, friends, and your own self. You only care about the people close to you. This is the same in the almost perfect city of Omelas. The ones who stay don’t feel guilt over anything. Those in Omelas who stay are unjust for they feel no guilt over the wrongs they commit to the child for their personal gain. To remove the guilt they fell from themselves they dehumanize the child. They change it into an object or a beast, which plagues their city or a stain upon their otherwise perfect city. The ones who stayed dehumanize the child so they feel no guilt for what they …show more content…
He is treated like an animal because his living conditions are similar to a zoo. People come and see him when they want “a person or, several people, are there”(17). The child is show off like a caged animal. Since they show him off as a caged animal they keep him in some thing simulate to a cage. He lives in a small room about “three paces long and two wide”(17), which is about the same length of a caged for an animal. Some animal cages are bigger and will fit the animal but when the animal is being inhumanly treated he get about the same amount of room that the child is force to live in. Finally even the people who come to watch or see the child find the conditions disgusting, like the child is a savage animal who cant live in a decent environment. The look on with “frightened, disgusted eyes”(17) at the child and the conditions that he is forced to live in. Though they could be looking at how the child is being treated with the “disgusted eyes”(17), they are more disgusted by how the child is disfigured and how it is sitting in its own …show more content…
They leave in that rage not because of how the child is being treated but how this problem has to be with there city, how they have to deal with it. Also “they fell disgust”(17) towards the child for it staining there city. Sure they could feel anger and disgust towards the treatment and the conditions towards the child, but then why wouldn’t they try to help the child. Why couldn’t they find another way? Also if they truly felt bad about what happened to the boy and how he was treated, they wouldn’t just cope with the problem then push it to the back of their memories. If they feel guilty about the child then why would they put the child under ground? Why would they put it somewhere where not much natural light could get to it? They put the child under the ground so that they didn’t have to see it so they could hide it and then live their lives with out thinking about the