I think there are a few themes in The Left Hand of Darkness. The most obvious one i noticed was her exaggeration of the male pronoun, "he", to the point of over using it. I think Le Guin definitely is trying to send a message here that our society is centered around the male gender. I think she also may believe the male gender dominates our society and wants to point that put so people will be obliged to change that.
Another theme i noticed was the theme of the silver lining. Estraven's character illustrates this on numerous occasions as well as Genly. Estraven, when he first met Genly was exiled because he helped Genly. Genly also achieved his mission at the cost of losing his closest friend: Estraven. This comes back to the Yin and Yang which is another theme of the story. Light cannot exist without dark, bad without good, questions without answers, rich without poor and gender without inequality?
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