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What Are The Similarities Between The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas And Frankenstein

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In my essay I will discuss Frankenstien and “The ones who walk away from Omelas”. A topic I found similar in both of these stories was suffering. The main characters in both stories go through a great deal of pain and suffering whether it be physically or mentally. To me both stories revolve around suffering. I would say they are similar in that way. In Frankenstein, the monster is suffering because he has no one. He is alone and everybody hates him. In our short story, the little boy suffers because he has been locked in a closet and abused for almost his whole life. Although they both suffer for different reasons, they are both in pain. Suffering is revealed by the monster's actions in Frankenstein. He just wants to be loved and have a family but he can’t because of what he looks like and what he is. He suffers because he is not accepted and everyone hates him. The monster states to his creator, “ I am your creature. I was good, but unhappiness had made me bad. Make me happy and I will be good again.”(Shelly 55). Based on this evidence we can assume that the monster …show more content…

He is suffering because he is treated like an animal and is abused. The narrator also says, “Often the young people go home in tears, or in a tearless rage, when they have seen the child and faced this terrible paradox. They may brood over it for weeks or years. But as time goes on they begin to realize that even if the child could be released, it would not get much good of its freedom: a little vague pleasure of warmth and food, no doubt, but little more.”(Le Guin 6). Based on this piece of evidence we know that when the people of Omelas visit him and they feel sorry for him in a way. Although they never do anything to help him, they still know that treating another human like that is wrong. After reviewing the evidence we can conclude that the little boy is suffering because of the way he is treated by

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