Imagine for a moment if you will a society without a monarchy or without conflict. Omelas is that unrealistic or fictional world which I have briefly described. The people of Omelas live a free and healthy life without woes and cares. The children were described as not nave and happy, but as mature, intelligent, passionate adults whose lives were not wretched. Their total society is one that we as readers picture as fiction, spawning from the fact that we try and compare the Omelas society to our own.The narrator in an excellent form delivered every aspect of the Omelas’ society as we read we are to believe that this utopian society is real instead of fiction, the towns people of Omelas they live without the comfort and luxuries such as heating and washing machines. This society has found their own alternatives to these luxuries that some of us take for granted. This perfect society is seen as one from the outside but those that stare in from the inside see that this world is not perfect. For the simple fact that the abuse of that child, shows to them that they are not completely free. By ignoring this injustice they are able to balance out a great society. In this fictional world we are able to see that they can just burry their problems go on with life being perfect. Ignorance is bliss, the narrator gives it to us flat out “ It is because of that child that they are so gentle with children. They know that if the wretched one were not there sniveling in the dark, the other one, the flute player, could make no joyful music.”...
