Edwin Abbott's Flatland

Flatland is a book that was written in 1884 by Edwin Abbott. His book shows the narrator’s adventures throughout the many dimensions he did not know of. The narrator, A. Square, shares his experiences by telling his story starting in Flatland. The way A. Square shares his stories is very different from what we know today. In his stories everything and everyone is made up of shapes and many more things that you would never see in the 21st century culture.
Flatlands government is almost like our government today. Flatlands government system is run like a dictatorship. Chief Circle is the head of the government and makes all of the decisions, so that would mean that he would be like a president in the 21st century. (27) The cabinet would be made
People’s social status is measured by the number of angles that make up that person. As the number of angles decreases the class decreases. Isosceles triangles make up the lowest class, because they have the least amount of angles. (7) The people who normally make up this class are the soldiers or the workmen. The next highest class would be the Equilateral Triangles, because they are perfect triangles. (7) Then comes Squares because they have 4 angles, and so on. (7)There is a way for the next generation to have more angles than their parents. It is called the Rule of Nature. The Rule of Nature is when a child is born in Flatland they will have one more angle than their father, so that means each generation will move up a class.
They were known to be able to make themselves invisible at will. (10) Abbott used a needle as an example. He said to place a needle on a table and to look eye level at it from the side and the end ways. (10) Looking at it from the side you are able to see the full length of it but looking at the needle from the end points you see nothing but a point. Women were often thought of dangerous and had little rights compared to the men. Women had 3 major laws that they had to follow. The laws were, Females can only use the eastern side door to enter their house, no females were allowed to walk out in public without continuously keeping up her peace-cry, and if any female has any disease necessitating involuntary motions shall be destroyed. (11) In some states there are even more harsh laws for females. (11) All women gained their rights in the 1920’s and now women have the exact same rights as men