Sunday, August 4, 2019
Roel of Violence in Edwin A. Abbotts Flatland :: Abbott Flatland Essays
Roel of Violence in Flatland        Some people turn to violence when something does not go          their way, or someone says something they do not agree with. It        does not take brains to solve a problem with your fists; it just makes  people look immature, and uneducated. Fighting and violence is         more prevalent at Bloomsburg than in many of the students home         towns. It seems that people are to busy or to drunk to just sit down  and talk things out like reasonable people.                                 Violence plays a major roll in the novel Flatland.  It seems like someone is always disagreeing with someone, and creating a  conflict, as when the square resorts to violence by sending his        hardest right angle into a violent collision with the stranger, only  because the square would not let himself be convinced of the           mysteries of Spaceland, or if an infant whose angle deviates by half a  degree from the correct angularity is summarily destroyed at birth.  If we destroyed all the mentally retarded people at birth because      they have flaws, and are not like everybody else, or if everyone       attacked people just because of something they said that we did not  believe--if this happened all the time, we would completely destroy  the world.                                                                    The college scene is really horrible when it comes to violence.  Members of fraternities and sororities are terrible at staying calm,  and controlling their temper, because of alcohol, and other drugs.     When a person drinks he becomes this monster of violence, a            fighting machine. People lose all senses of right and wrong when       they have the beer muscles on. A slight bump of the arm at a party     can trip the switch of a drunk, violent person. Even the weakest       person can experience this amazing feeling of power if she drinks      excessive amounts of alcohol. In small towns about the only            violence there is to see is in the bars, and taverns. Usually it is the  uneducated, lower-class people just blowing off a little steam. Life  in a small town is for the most part simple.
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