Essays on The Left Hand Of Darkness

Introduction

The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) and The Dispossessed (1974) are useful resources that demonstrate the utopian models and breaking of limits by individuals. The paper aims at identifying the concepts of individuality in the settings of radically different individuals in the society. It demonstrates the differences in culture and interactions that exist between racially different individuals as well as their similarities. Both texts are utopian in that they give a critical review of the powerful ideologies that exist between human, environments, politics among others. The essay focuses on two characters that help in pushing the plot forward as ...

In The Left Hand of Darkness, gender is an intriguingly abstracted concept – the Gethenians are “ambisexual,” with neither male nor female gender identity. From the human character’s perspective, Genly Ai, this creates a distinct disconnect between him and the Gethenans, as his worldview and perspective is heavily predicated upon the socialized differences between man and woman he has imposed on himself by Earth society. In Genly’s journey from a ‘man’ to a ‘person,’ I see that quest as him not necessarily losing anything important or essential to his identity, but rather freeing himself from the social constraints ...

In the novel “The Left Hand of Darkness,” Ursula Le Guin states that the world is moving from alien politics to alien bodies. In the article, the writer argues that one has to concentrate on the walls that separate them from one another: both the physical and metaphorical barriers. The author further writes that one has to think of the body as the first wall that they have. She writes, ‘We all need our bodies’ (78). The paper states that the body structure has been used to create distinctions in all aspects of human living. For instance, the writer ...