Psychological
What does the “burden of guilt” cause for characters in Le Guin’s stories?
Internal conflict
Lower-class roles
Le Guin’s work was inspiried by youth-led protests against which U.S. President?
Richard Nixon
In Le Guin’s version of the “Biblical Creation, ”The Fall” is reinterpreted as what?
Finding oneself
Ursula Le Guin is most known for which genre?
Science fiction
In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” what psychological phenonmenon is examined?
Cognitive dissonance
In Omelas, what role is the child forced into to ensure the city’s happiness?
A servant
Young activists in the 1970s and in “The Day Before the Revolution” contain a lot of what?
Enthusiasm
Instead of being a “sinner,” Eve is portrayed as what?
Liberator
- weak
-grieving
-lonely
What psychological boundaries are removed through the act of “unnaming”?
What does the author argue a fair society must value over ”usefulness to the wealthy”?
Individuals
What do the youth in the short story often do regarding the revolution?
They often ROMANTICIZE the revolution
What archetypes do Adam and Eve fit?
“The King” and “The Hero”
What is the psychological twist in “The Wife’s Story”?
The husband is the prey/human and the wife is the predator/wolf.
In “The Wife’s Story,” what are readers forced to confront due to deceptive diction?
Their own prejudices or perceptions of predators
In “The Wife’s Story,” what causes the rest of the pack to turn on the husband?
A change in his status
Young protestors often saw older leaders and activists as being what?
Outdated
According to the Daoist/Taoist archetype, what expands beyond words?
The truth
What else does Adam represent in ”She Unnames Them”?
A patriarchal society
What two things does Laia Asieo Odo struggle with?
- emotional isolation
-bridging the gap between her legacy and current reality
By unnaming animals, what specific economic concept is being rejected?
the idea that humans have ownership over others
Le Guin draws inspiration from the tensions between the older activists and who? How is this reflected in “The Day Before the Revolution”?
- Young protestors
- the young revolutionaries often overlook Odo’s advice and wisdom
Removing language is seen as an allusion to what Biblical story, acting as a “reversal of the curse”?
Babel
In ”The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” what does the child represent in the real world?
the exploitation of poor workers to maintain high living standards for the rich