Examples Of Utopia In Herland

Many people have different opinions about how a utopian society should be constructed. Utopia’s are an ideal type of society in which everything is the best for its society and the people within it.

Some think a utopia is where everyone looks the same and is equal, while others think that a society of all women is ideal, and still some others believe that a socialist society is the best. Thomas More and Charlotte Perkins Gilman are no exceptions. Each depict a utopian society in their respective novels. More portrays a society in the novel Utopia in which the ideal government is focused on the common good and no private property. Gilman also portrays some parts of a socialist society in her novel Herland. In Utopia, there is no private property. The property is equally divided among the people in order to create uniformity. In order to create fairness, people also switched houses every 10 years. If people needed supplies, there was a warehouse full of items that people could come use anytime. At one point in the novel, one of the characters asks for a pipe and the townspeople just hand him one. He questions what would happen if he lost it and someone else responds that someone

This is partly due to their isolation from other societies but also because the “government” form is one of a family and not formed like a state that we think of today. With the history of how Herland came to exist, the women decided that they would not be able to survive without cooperation from each other and that if they fought over who would become the leader, they would end up dwindling their already small population. For leaders, they just use the older you are the wiser you are proverb. This way of organization and leadership provides a structure that no one can argue or distrust as it is based upon experience and knowledge which are some of the highest ideals of the