Flatland

Since I am a math teacher and not an English teacher, I am going to quote directly from the back cover of the book to explain to you what Flatland is about.

However, I will tell you that my senior class is going to read and analyze this book during the school year. You can click on the links at the end of this page and you will be directed to questions that are arranged by chapter. This is what I want you to concentrate on in each chapter.

The back cover of this book says:

"With wry humor and penetrating satire, Flatland takes us on a mind-expanding journey into a different world to give us a new vision of our own. A. Square, the slightly befuddled narrator, is born into a place which is limited to two dimensions -- irrevocably flat--and peopled by a hierarchy of geometrical forms. In a Gulliver - like tour of his bizarre homeland, A. Square spins a fascinating tale of domestic drama and political turmoil, from sex among consenting triangles to the intentional subjugation of Flatland's female's. He tells of visits to Lineland, the world of one dimension, and Pointland, the world of no dimension. But when A. Square dares to speak openly of a third, even a fourth dimension, his tragic fate climaxes a brilliant parady of Victorian society. An underground favorite since its publication in England in 1884, Flatland is as prophetic a science-fiction classic as the works of H.G. Wells, introducing aspects of relativity and hyperspace years before Einstein's famous theories, and it does so with a wonderful, enduring enchantment."

Chapter Questions

Chapter One: Of the nature of Flatland
Chapter Two: Of the climate and houses in Flatland
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