![]() ![]() After giving the descriptions about the city of Omelas which is built on the duality of utopia and dystopia, Le Guin contributes a different kind of setting to the story, a place outside of Omelas, which cannot even be described verbally. Le Guin, by giving the narrator a dominant power to include the readers into the storyline, also establishes the readers of the story as the individual beings that exist in the textual space of the narration. While the joyous citizens of Omelas perceive the city as a utopia, the child who ‘needs to’ suffer for their constructed system of stability, perceives the world that surrounds her/him as a dystopia. The city of Omelas as a place, creates multiple spaces in accordance with the individuals and their perceptions about their surroundings. ![]() This paper explores the theme of utopia and dystopia in Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”.
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