![]() They maintain order without soldiers, they have religion but no clergy, and they are passionate people who feel no guilt. The narrator underscores that they do not know every particularity of the city and its workings, yet tells the reader some important details the people of Omelas do not use swords, nor do they keep slaves. The people of Omelas are “not less complex” than us, the third person narrator argues, yet for some reason they are truly happy. It starts with a depiction of the first day of summer in Omelas, which seems a practically perfect city in an unknown, fictional location. The five-page short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is a 1973 work of philosophical fiction. Keywords: bystander, complicity, group dynamics, guilt, implicated subject, representation, and violence. ![]() ![]() Posted on 29 January 2021 by Susanne Knittel
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