Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand Of Darkness

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Ursula Le Guin’s use of writing through her characters’ hero’s journey illustrates that duty is comparable to the responsibility that an individual’s has to themselves and the public. For example, in The Left Hand of Darkness, Genly Ai’s journey commences as his call to action consists of being an representative of Ekumen and an excursion facing obstacles such as convincing the government to join or being taken to a forced labor camp. Lastly, Ai finally faces the biggest ordeal yet: the Gorbin Glacier, describing his trek as, “We had, roughly, eight hundred miles to go [and] there is nothing, the Ice says, but Ice” (221, 249). Beyond being called a traitor, Estraven and Ai, mentally and physically tortured, still traveled across the mountains

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