English 2071F/G Study Guide - Signify, Deeper Understanding, The Left Hand Of Darkness
10 Dec 2014
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Themes: gender issues, androgyny, alien encounters, modernization. Quotables: though the gethenians have developed technologically, their warlessness finds a corollary in their resistance to change: the people of winter are technologically stagnant. There is no war and hence no progress. Le guin explains: the gethenians lacking masculinity do not rape their world. They have developed a high technology, heavy industry, automobiles, radios, explosives etc. , but they have done so very slowly, absorbing their technology rather than letting it overwhelm them. They have no myth of progress. this lack of progress suggests that the people of winter are backward looking. As the oral tales that form their folklore reveal, In chapter seven, called the question of sex, le guin identifies how a world without gender works: This sounds very simple, but its psychological effects are incalculable. The fact that everyone between seventeen and thirty-five or so is liable to be .
