BTStudy Guide #2: Omelas

BTStudy Guide #2: Omelas

Author: Hope Jacobson March 18, 2021 Duration: 27:45
17 Carat K-Pop
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This is the second episode in a 7-episode series that explores the literature and cinema BTS references in their music video universe! Today’s episode compares and contrasts the messages told through BTS’s “Spring Day” music video with “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin and Demian, the story discussed in BTStudy Guide #1!



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