... at the beginning of the novel, and the square comes to examine these views and lead the reader to examine their own. The Flatland society consists of regular shapes - lines, triangles, squares, heptagons, hexagons, all the way to circles. To Flatlanders, the more circular you are, the more perfect you are. The classes are defined as follows: women are lines, isosceles ... triangles are servants and slaves, regular triangles are lower working class, squares are gentlemen, heptagons and above are nobility, circles are priests. The segregation and ill treatment of those below squares is te...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... makes him almost an omnipotent narrator. It often appears as if we perceive things through Ralph's eyes, or more realistically, James". His illness makes him view the events from an oblique point of view, but with an attachment to Isabel that the reader can also identify with. He, perhaps more than anyone else, is an advocate of her freedom, but Ralph ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate