![]() ![]() Alyosha’s answer, almost a whisper, is “No, I would not consent.” But LeGuin writes of a society in which people have consented, and except for some children who have seen the scapegoat and decide to “walk away from Omelas” to a less happy world, most townspeople have no problem with this arrangement. ![]() In Ivan’s dialogue with his brother Alyosha over the suffering of children, Ivan asks his brother whether he would consent to a world in which humans live forever in perfect happiness only if one tiny child is tortured. LeGuin is honest about her dependence on the character Ivan’s speculations in Doestoevsky’s novel, The Brothers Karamazov. Ursula LeGuin’s story, “The Ones who Walk away from Omelas” is a story of a town called “Omelas” whose prosperity is guaranteed by a scapegoat, one tiny child who sits alone in a cell under tortuous conditions. ![]()
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