Binary Opposition

Question 1

Paradise Lost, John Milton, 1671

Answer 1

“th’ Arch-Enemy,/
And thence in Heav’n called Satan”
“Milton 2000)

Question 2

The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin, 1999

Answer 2

“Shevek knew that the concept of superiority… was important to the Urrasti; they often used the word “higher” as a synonym for “better” in their writings, where an Anarresti would use “more central””

(Le Guin 1999)

Question 3

Katherine Cross, 2018, Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and the Reimagining of Utopianism

Answer 3

Urras and Anarres represent “the difference between formal power - uniforms, titles, hierarchies, and laws - and informal power - the coercions of customs, norms, and ordinary relationships”
(Cross 2018)

Question 4

PL 2

Answer 4

“Nor hope to be myself less miserable/
… For only in destroying I find ease/
To my relentless thoughts”
(Milton 2000)

Question 5

The Old English Genesis and Milton’s Paradise Lost: the Characterisation of Satan, Elisa Ramazzina, 2016

Answer 5

“he is multifaceted and often contradicts himself, being both hero and villain, rebellion against God’s trynna but behaving as a tyrant.”

(Ramazzina 2016)

Question 6

Dispossessed 2

Answer 6

“We’ve been saying, more and more often, you must work with the others, you must accept the rule of the majority. But any rule is tyranny.”

(Le Guin 1999)