Book Description
The story Flatland is about a two-dimensional world made up of geometric figures. Women are line-segments so nobody can see them. They have squeaky voices and no say in anything. While men are polygons with different numbers of sides. The narrator is a square that calls himself A Squared. The shapes in this world have no concept of depth, only length and width. The less sides the shape has, the lower they are in society. Squares are considered lawyers. Circles on the other hand are higher in leadership and governance. The circles are the highest possible class. The more sides per shape, the more intelligent and educated they are expected to be.
Throughout the book it goes into depth of each shape and its class. A Squared gets a vision of another land, which he names Lineland. It is discovered that there is a Lineland, Spaceland, and Pointland. A sphere visits A Squared and tries to explain the fact that there are actually three dimensions. A Squared is then taken into Spaceland (the land of three dimensions), when there he sees for himself that there is depth. But when he returns how is it possible to explain something so big when you’re the only one who knows.
The story Flatland is about a two-dimensional world made up of geometric figures. Women are line-segments so nobody can see them. They have squeaky voices and no say in anything. While men are polygons with different numbers of sides. The narrator is a square that calls himself A Squared. The shapes in this world have no concept of depth, only length and width. The less sides the shape has, the lower they are in society. Squares are considered lawyers. Circles on the other hand are higher in leadership and governance. The circles are the highest possible class. The more sides per shape, the more intelligent and educated they are expected to be.
Throughout the book it goes into depth of each shape and its class. A Squared gets a vision of another land, which he names Lineland. It is discovered that there is a Lineland, Spaceland, and Pointland. A sphere visits A Squared and tries to explain the fact that there are actually three dimensions. A Squared is then taken into Spaceland (the land of three dimensions), when there he sees for himself that there is depth. But when he returns how is it possible to explain something so big when you’re the only one who knows.