My assumptions about Herland by Charlotte Gilman weren't as I expected. It's literally about a land full of women where no men are to be found. The area is tidy, pretty, and organized. It is all controlled by women, seemingly. This may depict how Gilman would like the world to be or thinks the world already is today. In the book, the women speak a different language from the men who come to investigate the land. This can symbolize that men and women speak a different language, and they have to learn from each other.
In English class, we never really learned about women's rights, but from what I know, white males were the controllers of things , especially from 1920 to previous years before that. From what I've read, Gilman just flips the script to women being the controllers of the society in "Herland". Since it is a women's land, anyone who intrudes would have to abide by what the people from there tell them to do. Gilman was probably trying to make a statement for the time period in which this book was wriiten since women were trying to gain their rights.
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