Social Norms As Weaponized Forces – Um-Helat & Omelas Case Study


TYPE: ESSAY – english SENIOR SEMINAR

WORD COUNT: 2.2K WORDS

TOPIC: SCI-FI & UTOPIAS | URSULA K. LE GUIN'S THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS & N.K. JEMISIN'S THE ONES WHO STAY AND FIGHT.


KEY: "each utopia’s 'solution' to
sustaining the ideal society is written as the utopia’s unsettling 'flaw'... Omelas and Um-Helat
diverge in their means of upholding utopia with distinct core principles but converge toward a
similar end goal: Utopian compliance and continuance at the cost of another’s expense."