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This 3 page paper compares and contrasts these futuristic novels written in the early twentieth century. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and was written and published around the time of the First World War. Many put this in the utopian literature camp, because the society created is perfect
until intruders do harm to the social structure. In the novel, women are the rulers of society, so much so that they do not even use men to procreate. In
fact, it is a society only composed of women. Yet, when men do enter the society, as they stumble on the all female world, there is disruption. Yet, these men,
aside from changing the society a little bit, also analyze it. The Herland religion for example is discussed along with other attributes of society that is unlike that of
the typical male-female world. Interestingly, some observations show that the women are very intelligent. Written at a time when women were not regarded as capable, this novel provides a sense
of what women can do, albeit in an unusual setting. The utopian argument is that women are powerful and intelligent. They can do anything a man can do. In Herland,
the women of this unusual society are able to function quite well in a paradise all their own. Herland is a utopian novel and quite different from the well known
dystopian view of Aldous Huxley. In Brave New World, which was written more than a decade after Herland, Huxley explores what it might be like in a modern, technologically oriented
society. Unlike Herland, where there is more pleasure in the pursuit of intellectual pastimes, Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley sees the future as something akin
to a place where one does as one wishes. People use drugs, have indiscriminate sex and do a number of things just to feel good. Morality, as it is known,
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