How Does Terry Visit Herland

Terry is self-confident and one can see this when he shows his excitement to visit Herland. He is interested in going to see what he calls “Feminisia”: He believes that he will meet there multitude of women and further he thinks that he will become popular in Herland also as he was a very popular man among girls in his own country. Terry was very proud of his masculinity. He was an explorer who thinks women to be slave. “There never was a woman yet that did not enjoy being mastered”. (173)
Terry is a male chauvinist, who thinks women are inferior and is proud to have knowledge about how one should have control over the female mind. He does not want to be confined under certain limits and when this happens to them he started making plans to escape. Terry is all shocked when he meets the women of Herland who are self-dependent and do not need any help from men, because he has always thought that women emotionally and physically need men, they cannot do anything without men. He is a person who thinks that women are not equal to men, he think that they
I could already see it happen-the dropped necklace, the sudden clutching hand, the girl’s sharp cry as he seized her and drew her in…He was madly in love with Alima. He wanted to take her by storm, and nearly lost her forever. He loved Alima but not on that sense she wants her to be loved, he wants one thing from her and that is sex, but she is not ready for it and they quarrel and quarrel.“Terry was a past master in this process. He tried it here, and Alima was so affronted, so repelled, that it was weeks before he got near enough to try again. The more coldly she denied him, the hotter his determination; he was not used to real refusal. The approach of flattery she dismissed with laughter, gifts and such “attentions” we could not bring to bear, pathos and complaint of cruelty stirred only a reasoning inquiry. It took Terry a long time.