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I will pay for the following essay Bookreport/ FlatLand by Edwin Abbot. The essay is to be 3 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page.The narrator, in the first pa

I will pay for the following essay Bookreport/ FlatLand by Edwin Abbot. The essay is to be 3 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page.

The narrator, in the first part of the book, which is a satire on the social structure of the Victorian era, describes his own world and how the society in this world works. In his world women are straight lines, the working class are equilateral triangles, the lowest class are isosceles triangles, and the middle class are squares.

In this land a shape that has more sides is higher in the class structure. Polygons that are multi sided and circles represent the highest levels. Houses are represented as pentagons. Women in this book have a second-class status like the women in Victorian society and are described as silly and unintelligent, good only as companions. But since they are straight lines, when upset or angry, they might turn out to be very dangerous. The sharpest are the soldiers (isosceles triangles) belonging to the lowest class, who are also very effective in battle. In case of a war, the higher classes do not hesitate to sacrifice the soldiers. Tradesmen are the equilateral triangles, the noble classes are the polygons and the priests are circles. All these combine to make a society within Flatland. There is discrimination, class conflict, power struggles, wars, in this imagined social order just like any other normal society. In Flatland the highest figures are those with many sides and angles, very close to being circles. Parents want to have children who have more sides and angles than them. Figures with irregular angles are considered as criminals and outcasts in Flatland. The Narrator, Square is a square in this book.

The second part of the novel is about the narrators imagination of a one-dimensional world called Lineland. This has more fantasy and less satire than the first part. This part describes what life might be like in this land. In the last part of the novel, the tables are turned on the narrator. Here a two-dimensional being comes across a being from Spaceland, a three-dimensional world. The

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