Ying and Yang

today, i remember discussing about the ying and yang, and what it all meant. i think it was very interesting how le guin used the title the left hand of darkness, because she is referring to light. i think she is trying to say that, for there to even be light, there needs to be darkness, and vise versa, as with every other opposite there is in this world. for example, there is big and small, fat and skinny, happy and sad, extrovert and introvert, boring and entertaining, and even something as simple as good and bad. i think she wrote this story to send a message saying that there is always two sides to everything. without its opposite, how are you supposed to know what it is?? how would you know what good is, if there is no bad? is there such thing as being happy if no one in the world is sad? there needs to be something to contrast it, in order for someone to know its actual meaning.