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If there is only one darkness in this utopia, it is about a child trapped in the basement of a building.

In fact, everyone in Omelas knows about a child trapped in the basement of a building. They also know that Omelas' happiness is maintained in return for the child's suf fering from his droppings in the basement. According to the text, “The terms are strict and absolute; there may not even be a kind word spoken to the child” (3).

Getting out of the basement and helping means that Omelas' happiness will soon collapse, so the child will have to be in the basement. That's the contract. Omelas people who witnessed this child have dif ferent reactions. Hate, acquiesce, or leave Omelas. Until the story of a child suf fering in the middle of the story , it was not easy to think about the paradise called Omelas.

2 Omelas are also a dif ficult type of paradise to imagine, but it seems to be due to doubts about pure happiness achieved without any pain and reward.

When you think of happy people in Utopia, you can think of people who have no worries and are insensitive and ignorant about reality at the same time. The people of Omelas are described as more intelligent and enthusiastic beings. They enjoy happiness, but it doesn't seem blind. It was only when they found out that it was a child suf fering in the basement that supported Omelas that this utopia felt realistic. That's inevitable because the reality I belong to usually flows through that logic, so I think they accepted it as a familiar narrative. It felt as if I met a familiar reality in paradise where I was busy embodying my image. Personally , I have no religion, but the first thing that came to mind after seeing this child was Jesus Christ, who took all the sins. It's often called atonement sheep and scapegoats. I thought the Omelas people's reaction to the child was similar to that of the Bible. The dif ference is that Jesus has apostles. This novel is said to have been remembered by Ursula Le Guin in 1973 when he saw the prosperity of the United States. The idea is that America's prosperity is based on poverty and war in a completely dif ferent world. we don't think that's wrong. If you look at the 21st century , you can fit this topic into many situations. There's a modern version of Atonement Sheep everywhere. Neither do I, but 'avoidance of responsibility' is a universal human psychology . In particular , if collective decision-making is made, we all the more likely to find a "amount of atonement" to shoulder our sins instead. In the political world, dif ferent atonement is reported as breaking news every day , and it may be because of this psychology that super propagators or certain groups are over -stigmatized during the Corona era. And whoever's chosen for atonement, we have the same reaction as the Omelas. Some may be so absorbed that they hate it, rationalize it, and defend their 3 position (or regard it as a devotion to atonement), and leave because they cannot af ford the happiness that atonement brings. There may be a dif ference in degree, but I think we already live in Omelas. W orrying about who's going to be the next atonement kid. Having accepted Omelas as a realistic world, we had no choice but to think what kind of human being I was. As far as I know , none of the Omelas are guilty . If a child is a sinful lamb who is guilty and suf fers instead, this sentence that there is no sinner in Omelas is truly incongruous. The amount of atonement that supports Omelas' happiness, and the people of Omelas who acquiesce in it, one must be a sinner .

Can the sacrifice of the few be condoned for the happiness of the many? (Utilitarianism) The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the good. This idea is the idea of utilitarianism that I've heard once in my social class. It is also an idea related to the big context of this novel. If the happiness of others is achieved by the sacrifice of just one person, from a utilitarian point of view , Omelas is making a huge good come true. However , if reality works with only one philosophy , it is a true utopia. As for the reason why the child suf fers, I think we need an additional question, "Why should it be this child?" rather than "T o make Omelas happy ." Especially if no one is willing to volunteer . Moreover , what this child gets from salvation is not 'Omelas's suf fering', but 'the extinction of eternal and supreme happiness that is naturally . Just because the child doesn't suf fer doesn't make Omelas unhappy , it just makes him 'less' happy . It may vary slightly depending on whether the standard of happiness is the accumulation of pleasure or the absence of pain, but if the purpose becomes a little clearer , concluding that we can discuss it again from a utilitarian perspective. If you hang it on your nose, it's a nose ring. If you hang it on your ear . This short story , Those who walk A way From omelas, certainly felt that it was a theme for criticizing utilitarianism. In fact, many people used examples to discuss the blind spots of 4 utilitarianism. It's such a short story and Ursula's style is so flexible that it's easy to read. I thought about why none of the people leaving Omelas thought of saving a child in the basement. I decided to leave Omelas anyway , and I even thought that saving the child did not mean Omelas' downfall. Omelas, made up of people who condoned and hated children, could it be destroyed by the absence of small happiness? These thoughts could be a hint of the answer I'm going to bury . Last, but not least, while there must be some people ar gue that happiness in this plot is depicted as one of the feelings and emotions that always must be accompanied with consequences and can never exist without anything, if the readers really consume and thoroughly read this plot, they will later be able to understand the fact that happiness can exist without any consequences. The child's disastrous portrayal, illuminated by sacrifice, was fresh and heartbreaking. It seems to be a story that reflects various perspectives such as people in welfare blind spots, utilitarianism, and human dignity that are not illuminated in our society .