Ursula K. Le Guin

Sexuality is more than just sexual activity. It is a part of what makes us human and it is anything that constructs sexual feelings. Unfortunately, individuals are restrained from expressing and embracing such art. Certainly, there are expectations imposed on society as individuals are caged up trying to live up to such conservative expectations and traditions of purity and heterogeneity (Kilgore and Ranu 359). Therefore, sexuality is influenced by various aspects in our life from past to…

we don’t and piece together from the text what is happening in the world we are reading about. This idea is discussed in Darko Suvin’s definition of science fiction. I see this definition really corresponding with The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. The novum is this entirely new world we are presented and getting the occupants of this world to join in an international alien space trade of sorts. The reader is suddenly thrown into a situation they have no background on and no idea…

Comparison Essay on 2 B R 0 2 B and The Lottery By: Aashish Ramanlal Can a perfect society exist? This is the simple question curving the backbone of every dystopian story. 2 B R 0 2 B written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr and The Lottery written by Shirley Jackson are both short dystopian stories that explore different types of worlds and whether or not a utopia can exist. An outstanding theme in 2 B R 0 2 B is whether or not authoritarian government control is a good thing. A quote that portrays…

LANGUAGE AND ITS ROLE IN FANTASY LITERATURE The fantasy genre is distinctive due to its freedom of expression – the entirely independent framework of story and its style of writing. It has the ability to take people into an alternate universe via a portal or immerse them in a completely different world. These worlds are characterised as unique and separate from us due to the unfamiliar lands, mystical culture and history of the characters in the story which is brought to us by the use of a…