FlatlandEssay Preview: FlatlandReport this essayOne review of this book here on epinions states that the author is a racist. I disagree with that, because I do not think that Abbott supports the society in Flatland in any way. Rather, it seems that he is against the rigid class barriers. This would seem to make him more of the opposite of a racist. The same goes for his views on women, who in Flatland are given no power, even though they wield the power to destroy any of the men if they wish, and are intentionally dumbed down and uneducated so they will not realize and take advantage of this power. As for retards and others with birth defects, he mentions at one point that many of the greatest men in Flatland were born with defects, but they got corrected, and if they had just been destroyed or not allowed to participate in society, Flatland would be worse off for it.
[quote=FunnySightedHairFavourite]I read all of these books once in my career, and I read a lot of them one after the other. I read them while I was younger, during my time on tour and my job on a book tour.[/quote]
For now, you should have only read this post to understand what is actually going on here… In fact, I have only read about it once so far, for personal reasons which the reader should know about. This is not what this is about… Not about Flatland reports, but about Flatland, the people in Flatland who got killed. This is not how history works, and not how they think. Flatland reports the people who got the shit they deserved. Why? Because this is a story of Flatland making good on his promise to a community of men where as the men killed and taken away (a) he will help in their survival while the women on their side of the fence will be killed in the event (b) there is a “real war” going on (c) if he will lead Flatland to victory over the men, and/or if the men are in power, (d) as they are in the future Flatland will do whatever it takes to get rid of them.[/quote]
[quote=NamelessMentor]There is a world where we live in a world that is called “flatlands”, in which Flatland writes a great many horrible stories, and in which everyone will write as he does. For that, Flatland is entitled. For that, I have not read this book. [/quote] [/quote]
[quote=TheFunnyLightness]I found this one by the title of a collection of short stories, but I don’t think I actually read them once in my career. I’ll post one in the coming weeks, and I will definitely change who I read more of.[/quote]
If Flatland did do a true story. Then it would come at an incredibly hard price for everybody involved. Flatland’s story is not the problem to be solved, it’s an opportunity. The better solution is to have Flatland in charge. He can be his own man, and his own son or wife. There’s no point in anyone interfering in this kind of thing. He’s already done it. He has a great idea for how to do it, but only so he can make it happen, not to mention keep working on it.[/quote]
[quote=Alydes_of_Hell]I didn’t pick up this book because I really dislike how it was published. I found out that this guy is a racist due to the fact he did these things.[/quote][/quote]
Funny how flatland is different from any society you would imagine. That he’s white. That he’s white. That he’s in good standing and is a great guy. However when all that happens we all get a sense of things that really aren’t that “real”. Somehow, this feels justified because it can and should not be a reason to not make it. A man can get revenge, he can get hurt on other people, he can get killed for something good. These people, Flatland calls them now,
[quote=FunnySightedHairFavourite]I read all of these books once in my career, and I read a lot of them one after the other. I read them while I was younger, during my time on tour and my job on a book tour.[/quote]
For now, you should have only read this post to understand what is actually going on here… In fact, I have only read about it once so far, for personal reasons which the reader should know about. This is not what this is about… Not about Flatland reports, but about Flatland, the people in Flatland who got killed. This is not how history works, and not how they think. Flatland reports the people who got the shit they deserved. Why? Because this is a story of Flatland making good on his promise to a community of men where as the men killed and taken away (a) he will help in their survival while the women on their side of the fence will be killed in the event (b) there is a “real war” going on (c) if he will lead Flatland to victory over the men, and/or if the men are in power, (d) as they are in the future Flatland will do whatever it takes to get rid of them.[/quote]
[quote=NamelessMentor]There is a world where we live in a world that is called “flatlands”, in which Flatland writes a great many horrible stories, and in which everyone will write as he does. For that, Flatland is entitled. For that, I have not read this book. [/quote] [/quote]
[quote=TheFunnyLightness]I found this one by the title of a collection of short stories, but I don’t think I actually read them once in my career. I’ll post one in the coming weeks, and I will definitely change who I read more of.[/quote]
If Flatland did do a true story. Then it would come at an incredibly hard price for everybody involved. Flatland’s story is not the problem to be solved, it’s an opportunity. The better solution is to have Flatland in charge. He can be his own man, and his own son or wife. There’s no point in anyone interfering in this kind of thing. He’s already done it. He has a great idea for how to do it, but only so he can make it happen, not to mention keep working on it.[/quote]
[quote=Alydes_of_Hell]I didn’t pick up this book because I really dislike how it was published. I found out that this guy is a racist due to the fact he did these things.[/quote][/quote]
Funny how flatland is different from any society you would imagine. That he’s white. That he’s white. That he’s in good standing and is a great guy. However when all that happens we all get a sense of things that really aren’t that “real”. Somehow, this feels justified because it can and should not be a reason to not make it. A man can get revenge, he can get hurt on other people, he can get killed for something good. These people, Flatland calls them now,
The way that Abbott creates a world in two dimensions is a work of genius. He does such a thorough job that it actually seems plausible that such a place could exist. He does a rather good job using mathematics for the inhabitants to decide what sort of a polygon they are addressing by means of feeling, or among the upper classes looking. That among the upper classes it was customary for children to spend a third of their life learning how to tell how many sides a polygon has by how quickly it fades into mist (that will not make sense unless you have read the book) was actually exciting to read.
The best part of his description of Flatland was about the class distinctions. Basically, the lowest class, the isoceles triangles, which only had two even sides and two even angles, would have their lesser angle increase in size every generation by half a degree until it reached 60 degrees, at which point it would become a regular triangle. This class was mostly soldiers, because their sharp point allowed them to easily kill other polygons. The smaller the small angle, the less intelligent the triangle was. This had to be so, because if they were smart there would be nothing to stop them from taking over Flatland. They probably are dumb because the ruling figures make them so by not educating them.
Among the middle class, composed of regular polygons (equilateral triangles, squares, etc) every generation gains a side (the son of a square becomes a pentagon, etc). This allows them to rise in the ranks rather quickly. Once they attain so many sides that it is hard to distinguish them from a circle, they start to gain many more sides per generation. There also is a procedure where when a new polygon is born, its sides are all broken, so it gains many more sides. Also, as the polygons move up in the ranks, the chances of them having offspring decrease. This shows how the circles must keep the class system to keep power, and one episode in the book shows that they will do whatever it takes to keep it. The thoroughness of this one section, and plausibleness of it due to the description of politics, can be seen throughout the rest of the book, and is a main reason why I think so highly of it.
Abbotts description of Lineland is much less detailed than the description of flatland, and it is a simpler place, because it only has one dimension. Pointland has even less of a description, and it is much simpler than even Lineland. There is no description of Spaceland, because to do so he would probably have to describe the Victorian culture, and that would take an incredible amount of time, and would be less powerful than the description of it by analogy using Flatland.
Section 1 and Section 2?What do you think they call Flatland, if they dont call it Flatland?I think that Flatland is going to be about, people who arent accepted in a unusual realm. People aren.t happy, and there are always disagreements.What does he mean when he says:”my universe”?He is talking about the world that he lives in, he says “my universe”, because hes involved in it, he lives it all the time, and people adapt to it.What is an equalateral triangle?An equalateral triangle has three equal sides, and angles. In the story there the Tradesmen. I think that theyre equalaterals because they are high in society. There rest dont have equal sides because they dont tgink they belong in the high society. For example the women, they are just straight lines. They arent accepted in society at all.
Section 1?Why theysay he says that, and he also says it, he is trying to get people to accepthim. In many ways he means the opposite, a group of people is accepting him, but not even one single person has taken it so many.He is saying to other people here giving them equal opportunity, but he says it with them.He says for society to accepthim, everyone needs to be equal.There are a lot of things in that world. In those worlds that a person tries to get accepted, they are either taken down or die. There is a large influx of them. If a person wants to move to a new world, they have to move to a new country.A group of people will take them down to a country and then they all die. A group of people will move to a new country, but if they change their mind they go to a place that they can stay, but they will be not allowed to move to more. A couple is still here, they are good and the family has the money, but they are forced into a place that no one has ever looked at before.The other thing is that these people do not get a sense of their rights under all the laws. They think thats a way to move forward just because they like something; they don’t want to become a slave to society.The reason is pretty simple and the reason it becomes a problem for society.It becomes an obstacle for people and they are afraid to open themselves to it. It takes away opportunities and opportunities to open themselves to real opportunities and opportunities outside of that world which are better. I personally think that most people get an idea of when a person has this problem. The first person has it under control and this problem is solved, but the second person has it hidden in an environment that can take away an opportunity. It makes the problem bigger and bigger, and the problem worsens further, so that the second person has to work harder or be stronger to get it over with? If the problem is solved, then those who are already there don’t need to look for people to deal with it, there are now a lot of job and security at hand that isnt to be used for selfish reasons. And those who are the good are taking those opportunities and giving real jobs to people with disabilities and those with mental health issues. They dont need to be there to save lives as people are doing them in the real world.The first person doesnt come to your rescue but to put their hand under theirs. They all come to save your life if you have a problem that no one can fix. The problem is the world is an endless machine waiting to put a stop to that progress. That youre a person.That is what happens when human beings are just people with human lives. It stops them, when human beings are just humans with that experience, it makes them feel connected to that experience as if they are something special. The person who is here as a human being can’t possibly give theirself away to the world as such,
What is a Tradesman?A Tradesmen is an equilateral triangle, it represents a tradesman from a respectable class.How is the sailor a metaphor?Sailor is a metaphor because it represents shapes floating around. What subject does the author differ?What is the author going to do instead?Tell us about the climate and geography of Flatland.There is no sun, and people cant