Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland: A Romance Of Dimensions
Bertrand Joseph M. Roldan October 10, 2013
BA Literature – Management
Lit 3 – Literature, Society and the Individual
A Dark Comedy that Packs a Punch:
An Analysis of Edwin A. Abbott’s “Flatland: A Romance of Dimensions” Dark Comedy is a comic work that employs black humor, which is humor that makes light of serious subject matters; most literary writers use this type of satiric method to reflect what is happening to their current society, E. A. Abbott used this method in Flatland utilizing two dimensional shapes where the protagonist is a square who lives in an alternate reality called Spaceland. This Square’ tries to persuade his fellow two-dimensional beings – triangles, hexagons, and so on – that other dimensions are possible. …show more content…
The novel was written during 1884 and the author was even accused of misogyny but in his defence he was writing as a historian which was also apparent in Flatland where the historians in Flatland says that the destinies of Women and of the masses of mankind have seldom been deemed worthy of mention and never of careful consideration. The unequal treatment of women are not only confined in that period but is also present in almost all periods of time where patriarchy is practiced in certain societies, take for example the women in Indonesia where a certain society practice child marriage, girls aging from six and up are legible for marriage in their society, women are denied of education regardless of age and social status, women are regarded as inferior than men, this is seen and proven in Promoedya Ananta Toer’s short story written in the 1980’s where his main character, a girl of eight years old who cannot decide for herself was set up by her father to be married, she is regarded as the perfect wife because she is young, hardworking and does not question her master which is considered to be the stereotype of women in their society which their culture and traditions was built on patriarchy. When she was married it boosted her social status but the moment when she got divorce at the age of nine, her social status together with her marriage deteriorated, when she asked to work for her former master (a mother of her friend), she was denied because she was a divorcee, their society believed that if a woman is divorced, the blame automatically goes to back to her, even if the main character was being abused by her husband saying
BA Literature – Management
Lit 3 – Literature, Society and the Individual
A Dark Comedy that Packs a Punch:
An Analysis of Edwin A. Abbott’s “Flatland: A Romance of Dimensions” Dark Comedy is a comic work that employs black humor, which is humor that makes light of serious subject matters; most literary writers use this type of satiric method to reflect what is happening to their current society, E. A. Abbott used this method in Flatland utilizing two dimensional shapes where the protagonist is a square who lives in an alternate reality called Spaceland. This Square’ tries to persuade his fellow two-dimensional beings – triangles, hexagons, and so on – that other dimensions are possible. …show more content…
The novel was written during 1884 and the author was even accused of misogyny but in his defence he was writing as a historian which was also apparent in Flatland where the historians in Flatland says that the destinies of Women and of the masses of mankind have seldom been deemed worthy of mention and never of careful consideration. The unequal treatment of women are not only confined in that period but is also present in almost all periods of time where patriarchy is practiced in certain societies, take for example the women in Indonesia where a certain society practice child marriage, girls aging from six and up are legible for marriage in their society, women are denied of education regardless of age and social status, women are regarded as inferior than men, this is seen and proven in Promoedya Ananta Toer’s short story written in the 1980’s where his main character, a girl of eight years old who cannot decide for herself was set up by her father to be married, she is regarded as the perfect wife because she is young, hardworking and does not question her master which is considered to be the stereotype of women in their society which their culture and traditions was built on patriarchy. When she was married it boosted her social status but the moment when she got divorce at the age of nine, her social status together with her marriage deteriorated, when she asked to work for her former master (a mother of her friend), she was denied because she was a divorcee, their society believed that if a woman is divorced, the blame automatically goes to back to her, even if the main character was being abused by her husband saying