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A 7 page essay that analyzes the main themes from Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, a science fiction novel. The structure of the novel follows the cognitive adaptations of each of the two main characters as they learn to alter and adapt their communication skills in light of the other's perspective. In so doing, Le Guin provides profound insight not only into the essence of communication, but also into how human perspective is integrally tied to gender concerns, conceptualizations of the Other, and the human conceptualization of love. No additional sources cited.
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diplomatic envoy to a planet, a man named Genly Ai, and his principal diplomatic contact, Lord Estraven. Both characters are human in that their remote ancestors came from Earth,
but genetic manipulation, possibly as an adaptation to the harsh environment of the planet, has changed the native inhabitants into an androgynous race. The structure of the novel follows
the cognitive adaptations of each of these individuals as they learn to alter and adapt their communication skills in light of the others perspective. In so doing, Le Guin provides
profound insight not only into the essence of communication, but also into how human perspective is integrally tied to gender concerns, conceptualizations of the Other, and the human conceptualization of
love. As the only male on the planet Gethen, Genly begins his mission by having, first of all, adapt his thinking to the fact that the native inhabitants are
androgynous. During their "kemmer" time, which is only a few days out of each month, they may assume either male or female sexual characteristics, but for the remainder of the
month, they are completely androgynous. Genly copes with this concept by seeing all of the inhabitants as male. Genly tries to see the people of this planet "through their own
eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those categories so irrelevant to his nature and
so essential to my own" (Le Guin 8). It is telling, however, about Genlys gender preconceptions that he tends to see Estraven as a male when he approves of
him, and female when he does not. Genly speaks admirably of Estravens power, which one feels as "an augmentation of his character" (Le Guin 5), but, when thinking about
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