While reading “The Word for World is Forest,” one of the
first things I noticed that was that there were clearly two different societies
within the book. In the Yumen society there is a clear distinction of the
inequality between the men and the women within the society. The men were seen
as the dominant figures, as they ruled and made all the decisions for their
kind, whereas the women were seen as mere tools for reproduction and sexual
desires. However, if when we read about the Ashshean society we notice that there
appears to be equality among both men and women. The men were seen making
decisions, while the women took leadership and ruled over their villages. This
causes me to wonder if the point behind this display of gender roles was Ursula
Le Guin’s way of pointing out the inequality among society and the ideal
society that we should be aiming for.
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