Herland
Introduction + Context
Plot Summary
Detailed Summary & Analysis
Chapter 1: A Not Unnatural Enterprise
Chapter 2: Rash Advances
Chapter 3: A Peculiar Imprisonment
Chapter 4: Our Venture
Chapter 5: A Unique History
Chapter 6: Comparisons Are Odious
Chapter 7: Our Growing Modesty
Chapter 8: The Girls of Herland
Chapter 9: Our Relations and Theirs
Chapter 10: Their Religions and Our Marriages
Chapter 11: Our Difficulties
Chapter 12: Expelled
Themes
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Womanhood and Femininity
Gender Roles and Relationships
Community
Motherhood and Reproductive Control
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Characters
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Vandyck “Van” Jennings
Jeff Margrave
Terry O. Nicholson
Ellador
Celis
Alima
Somel
Moadine
Zava
The Colonels
Symbols
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Herlandian Clothes
The Herlandian Forest
Literary Devices
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Allegory
Allusions
Foil
Foreshadowing
Genre
Imagery
Irony
Logos
Metaphors
Mood
Motifs
Personification
Satire
Setting
Similes
Situational Irony
Style
Tone
Unreliable Narrator
Verbal Irony
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Herland
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Introduction
Intro
Plot Summary
Plot
Summary & Analysis
Chapter 1: A Not Unnatural Enterprise
Chapter 2: Rash Advances
Chapter 3: A Peculiar Imprisonment
Chapter 4: Our Venture
Chapter 5: A Unique History
Chapter 6: Comparisons Are Odious
Chapter 7: Our Growing Modesty
Chapter 8: The Girls of Herland
Chapter 9: Our Relations and Theirs
Chapter 10: Their Religions and Our Marriages
Chapter 11: Our Difficulties
Chapter 12: Expelled
Themes
All Themes
Womanhood and Femininity
Gender Roles and Relationships
Community
Motherhood and Reproductive Control
Quotes
Characters
All Characters
Vandyck “Van” Jennings
Jeff Margrave
Terry O. Nicholson
Ellador
Celis
Alima
Somel
Moadine
Zava
The Colonels
Symbols
All Symbols
Herlandian Clothes
The Herlandian Forest
Lit Devices
All Literary Devices
Allegory
Allusions
Foil
Foreshadowing
Genre
Imagery
Irony
Logos
Metaphors
Mood
Motifs
Personification
Satire
Setting
Similes
Situational Irony
Style
Tone
Unreliable Narrator
Verbal Irony
Theme Wheel
Theme Viz
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