Role of Violence in Flatland

Role of Violence in Flatland

Role 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...