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What Is The Meaning Of Omelas By Le Guin

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In ""Omelas"," the narrator describes that the child faces agony so that the rest of the population can live happily, but no rational clarification is given as to why this should be so and thus, Collins writes, Le Guin is able to make her reader question "a similar failure of Western capitalist theodicy": there is no good reason, despite the "historical, economic, political, racial-genetic-physical, geographical and religious elements" that Western readers may use to describe the "radical inequalities" of "`our ' world," as to why certain groups must suffer so that others can have a high standard of living. Le Guin 's ending, in which some individuals leave Omelas for a place "even less imaginable to most of us," points out finally that the

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