The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
is a 1973 short story by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is a philosophical parable
with a sparse plot featuring bare and abstract descriptions of
characters; the city of Omelas is the primary focus of the narrative.
- Ursula K. Le Guin( October 21, 1929~)
is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction.
She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s,
her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds
in politics, natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and
ethnography.
- Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( 1865 – 1936)
was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children.Kipling is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), and his poems, including "The White Man's Burden" (1899) .
- Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941)
was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
was an influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, the best known members of which included Virginia Woolf,. This loose collective of friends and relatives lived, worked or studied together near Bloomsbury, London, during the first half of the 20th century.
was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter.His works include James and the Giant Peach(飛天巨桃), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(巧克力工廠), and The BFG(吹夢巨人).
The
Brontës were a nineteenth-century literary family associated with the
village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The
sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, are well known as poets and novelists. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of literature.
is a community or society possessing highly desirable or perfect qualities. The word was coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature. It has spawned other concepts, most prominently dystopia.
is a community or society, usually fictional, that is in some important
way undesirable or frightening. It is the opposite of a utopia. Such societies appear in many works of fiction, particularly in stories set in a speculative future. Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society.
For example :Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ,The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli.The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal.
- ''as vicious as lion ,as cunning as fox '' from The Prince.
- allegory：寓托／託寓／諷喻
- parable：比喻／寓言
- fable：寓言
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