The most prominate theme in Flatland is the treatment of women. The fact that Abbott decided to represent women in Flatland as Lines shows that in his society people refused to see women as multi dimensional. In Flatland women are shown to be incapable of understanding the the education that are given to men. This shows the narrow-mindded attitudes present during Victorian society which disallowed women the educatioal opportunities allowed to men. In the victorian …showed first 75 words of 361 total…

…showed last 75 words of 361 total…to the world of women, who have an absolute corner on not only the intuitive aspects of knowledge but also the abstract concepts such as loyalty and love which are difficult to translate into a strictly utilitarian construct. Since the Squares objective in Flatland is to understand the third dimension, something very difficult for him to comprehend at first, his dificulties can be paralled to our own dificulties in understanding the fourth dimension and beyond.