Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Discuss Genly Ai's struggle to see Gethenians as they see themselves. What do Genly Ai's attitudes reveal about the world he comes from?



Genly Ai being form a different planet where a human is categorize as male or female, faces a challenges being on the planet Winter. Genly is so used to looking at someone and calling them he or she because on Genly’s planet that’s the norm, you are either male or female 100 % of the time. On Winter the humans there aren’t female or male most of the time. Genly hasn’t really gotten over the matter of looking at Gethenians and not worrying about calling them a male or female. He hasn’t gotten past looking at them and just accepting it, he wants to be about to categorize because that’s what normal for him. But for Gethenians they don’t see each other as female or male until their kemmer season, they see each other as humans. They look pass their gender and look more at each other, like looking at a soul. Not being able to accept this causes a culture board for him in a sense, but what also cause a culture board is the fact that Genly seems to be more like a real life human (like from our reality, you know from Earth) which causes Gethenians to also not accept him, they see him as a pervert because he’s a male full time. Genly’s attitudes reveal about his world is that it’s more like ours and that their used to identifying each other as male or female. Calling a female she and male he, identifying them so Genly knows how and what to talk about with them.

1 comment:

  1. I agree it can be hard to see something from another persons set of eyes when you've been taught to always label and categorize things and people. However Genly also needs to learn to just accept people for who they are and not just what they are.

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