Sunday, February 26, 2012

Flatland by E.A. Abbott

In the book Flatland it starts off about how things appear at different angles depending on where you look at it from. The author alse tells about the social relationships in this restricted world. For example, the low status of women, who are depicted as straight line segments. He allso talks about the different sociall classes in ho world. The middle class consists of equilateral triangles and the professional men, which he says is the social class he belongs to, are squares and pentagons. The next class is the Nobiltys. The world he is living in is obviously a two-dimensional world. You can tell when he says that whenever he looks at someone, to us with two eyes, the person would look like a straight line. It is hard for the people of Flatland to distinguish themselves from one another.

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