Rosamund Mitchell -- Satirical Exaggeration

   It might be hard to appreciate for students today, but the kinds 
   of things A. Square says are not all that far from things one
   used to hear all the time.  Look at the first seasons of the TV show 
   "Mad Men" (set in the early 1960's) for an pretty realistic example of this. 
   Similarly, when I was growing up I remember hearing serious discussions 
   from "talking heads" about how women were too emotional and unstable to 
   be trusted with the sorts of decisions a President would have to make.  

   You have clearly understood the satirical tone Abbott uses and it's 
   good that you have looked at some different passages in detail and 
   analyzed the ways that Abbott has the Square say those "over the top" things.

   The point that men in Flatland (and Victorian England) want to restrict
   women because they are afraid of them is very good and I think that is
   really the key to understanding this.  I think all the verbiage about female
   inferiority and weakness was actually a way to keep women "in their place"
   and not allow them to realize how powerful and capable they really were.
   If they ever did figure that out (and, of course they did, through the 
   Suffragette movement and in other ways), then the position of men at the 
   top of society would never be the same.

   Your writing is very good here.

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