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LIt Studies
“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”
After reading the story again, think about these quotations.
1. As they did without monarchy and slavery, so they also got on without the stock exchange, the advertisement, the secret police, and the bomb.
2. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
3. Religion yes, clergy no.
4. I don‘t think many of them need to take drooz.
5. They feel disgust, which they had thought themselves superior to.
6. Those are the terms. To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed.
7. It is too degraded and imbecile to know any real joy. It has been afraid too long ever to be free of fear. Its habits are too uncouth for it to respond to humane treatment. Indeed, after so long it would probably be wretched without walls about it to protect it, and darkness for its Eyes, and its own excrement to sit in.
8. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all.
A. The people of Omelas have good lives and are psychologically healthy. They don’t want to escape from reality.
B. Only in religion can we be free of human suffering.
C. The people of Omelas consider that some emotions are not very healthy or beautiful; they think that when people are psychologically well–developed, they don’t have certain emotions.
D. The past has its bad parts that violate human rights. The present also has some bad parts that violate human rights.
E. When someone is psychologically limited and damaged, they can never recover. They will never enjoy life.
F. You need some intelligence to truly enjoy your own life.
G. Writers usually like to write about tragedies. It’s a common thought that sad stories are more “serious” and “important” than happy stories.
H. If you decide to leave your own culture and reject its rules of behavior and society, there is no way to tell if you’ve made the right decision or not; your “new” life might be better or worse.
I. Humans have a deep need for spiritual expression and belief, but the structure of a church, temple or mosque is almost always corrupted.
J. The development of society requires some human suffering. It cannot be escaped.
