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Comparing Abbott's Flatland And Equilateral Triangles

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Stone Follari
Summary
In Flatland, everything is made of two dimensional shapes. Men are the polygons and women are the straight lines. Isosceles triangles make up the working class and soldiers; the sharp point made by the isosceles triangle is used as a weapon. Equilateral triangles- since they are normal- compose the merchants. Squares are lawyers and pentagons are doctors. A Higher number of sides correlate to an increasing leadership and power in government. Circles are treated as nobles, and with an increased number of sides; as a polygon gets closer to being a true circle, their supposed intelligence rises respectively.
Whilst there is no way for women to progress the social ranking of herself or her daughter, it is possible for triangles. …show more content…

The sphere tells Abbott of the new gospel and encourages him to preach it. The government is expecting this visitation, since it happens every 1,000 years. There is a meeting in which the sphere appears. The sphere is called a trick and any low level polygon witnesses were either killed or thrown in jail. Abbott attempts to spread the gospel of the three dimensions, but he is arrested. Abbott's brother was also in prison, for being at the meeting in which the Sphere appeared. Abbott tries to convince his brother of the gospel, but he does not believe in such "crazy" nonsense that is a higher dimension. Abbott hopes that someday someone will be convinced of his belief in many …show more content…

Lineland's king does not believe Abbott's statement that there is a two-dimensional world. He really has no evidence to support the claim, since he is being projected as a line. If a being in the fourth-dimension did the same thing to us, we would most likely react similarly. In Pointland, I love how Abbott described the king as being "self-centered." Since the king is a point, he is the only point he can know of, so he is the center, self-centered, he himself is the center! I thought it was funny. Perhaps if a 5th dimensional object was portrayed unto us we would have no recognition of it? It is an interesting

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