It was because of this, those alternative ways of using energy sources were developed such as wind energy which had been around for thousands of years beforehand. The oil shortages of the 1970s changed the energy environment for the world. All this may sound rather familiar, as some of the ideas that Le Guin posits were already in existence when she wrote her story. Le Guin created the planet Anarres intending to promote what she deemed to be new ideas, where water and heat would be rationed and where nothing goes to waste.Įverything was to be recycled and they would use the wind to generate energy. She compares that with a capitalist regime on the planet Urras. Le Guin uses a concept of opposites with the use of two planets to write of a society governed by principles free from state rule on the planet Anarres. Discussing these philosophies will determine if she was successful in delivering a convincing narrative that overcomes conflicting notions of a perfect society A concept of opposites Le Guin uses her novel as a moral principle of anarchism based on political theories and ideas of collective societies to challenge modes of radical thinking.
It won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards in 1975. Her 1974 novel, The Dispossessed, was written as a political tale, with themes that include freedom and the corruption of capitalist societies. Le Guin is one of the most influential science fiction and fantasy writers of the twentieth century.
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