Essay On Herland

In The fiction novel “Herland”, the author Charlotte Perkins Gilman, fantasizes a society that consists of all women. Three adventurous men Terry, Jeff, and Van left on an expedition to an undiscovered land called Herland. The three men had different outlooks on women with Terry being disrespectful, Jeff was significantly respectful and Van was in between. Once the men landed on the undiscovered land they came in contact with three of the herlanders. The herlanders ran away and were faster, stronger, and more agile than the men. The men were soon imprisoned by the women and they were overpowered by them. Their imprisonment was an education about the culture and language of the civilization Herland. Feminism can be looked at through culture,

They needed to create women that could accomplish certain tasks that men would usually do in the old society. For example, the carpentry work and clearing the land so they could produce agricultural products and build on the land. To complete this task of creating these perfect babies they needed to have the best kind of women. The National Board of Review mentioned that it's like “prescribing birth control to the lower classes and encouraging breeding in the upper classes”(NBR) it is comparable to the eugenic feminism. The women evolved to provide for themselves and once the three men found the land they were shown that the women were in power and not them.
The men weren't used to the women being in power and knew that there had to be men in the civilization because of how efficient and well it was doing. The men were over ran by the women and they learned their ways. Soon by the end of the book one of the three men were starting to accept the women being in charge or equal to them. In my opinion Van started to accept it because he knew this is how the women have been treated. The women felt like prisoners in the old society in the United States because they always had to rely on the man. If a women didn't have a husband then they weren't successful in