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A 10 page research paper/essay that contrasts and compares Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction/fantasy The Land Hand of Darkness and Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf, which are two novels that share a basic orientation in that both narratives employ fantasy in order to illustrate the author's views on the tendency of human beings to view reality, including themselves in dichotomous terms, primarily in terms of polar opposites. Both authors make the point that this "either/or" type of thinking does not actually reflect reality, which is much more complicated than the black-and-white scenarios that dichotomous thinking tends to produce. However, beyond the similarities in their philosophical foundations, the novels are, of course, completely different. However, comparing these narratives illustrates the ways in which Hesse and Le Guin employed the genre of fantasy in order to achieve their artistic goals. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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both narratives employ fantasy in order to illustrate the authors views on the tendency of human beings to view reality, including themselves in dichotomous terms, primarily in terms of polar
opposites. Both authors make the point that this "either/or" type of thinking does not actually reflect reality, which is much more complicated than the black-and-white scenarios that dichotomous thinking tends
to produce. However, beyond the similarities in their philosophical foundations, the novels are, of course, completely different. However, comparing these narratives illustrates the ways in which Hesse and Le Guin
employed the genre of fantasy in order to achieve their artistic goals. In both novels, the writers, first of all, lay out the parameters of their fictional worlds and
introduce their protagonists. In Le Guins novel this encompasses the idea that a earth-like human being named Genly Ai has been sent as a diplomatic contact to a planet colonized
by human-descended being who evolution has diverged from the Earth norm. While Lord Estraven, like Genly Ai, has remote ancestors who came from Earth, through genetic manipulation, possibly as an
adaptation to the harsh environment of the planet, has changed the native inhabitants into an androgynous race. While Genly knows that these people are androgynous on an intellectual level, he
finds it difficult to escape from his lifetime habit of dichotomous thinking when it comes to gender. Therefore, he tends to think of Estraven as "male," although for the majority
of he novel, "he" is neither male nor female. Le Guin never gives an overt explanation for what might have led to Estravens planet losing contact with the rest of
humanity, but in Left Hand a character speculates on this question and wonders if "they were motivated by guilt for treating lives as things" (Cummins 68). The protagonist of
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