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This Research paper deals around the numerous critics have examined The Left Hand of Darkness by discussing the elements which combine to help make meaning for the reader. However, none have approached the text strictly as a rhetorical instrument. Ursula K. Le Guin uses debate as a rhetorical strategy to explore and define the social issues of xenophobia, sex-role stereotyping, and alienation as a means of inducing elevated social awareness on these issues. It is light that is the left hand of darkness, and darkness the right hand of light, as in the yin-yang symbol, in which dualities are united. The Left Hand of Darkness is a book about making whole. It’s also a book about what it means to be a good person and where gender is significant in that. But mostly it’s about the joy of pulling a sledge over a glacier between two worlds.