Flatland Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 9, Of the Universal Color Bill Summary

Chapter 9, Of the Universal Color Bill Summary

A. Square begins by noting that although the time of the color war was one of importance in art, it was also one of decay in intellectual pursuit. Sight recognition, now unneeded, was halted in schools, as was feeling recognition and other higher mathematical courses. The Isosceles race, now not required to serve as specimens, began to grow in number. Soldiers and Artisans began to note their equality to higher classes, since the intellectual and recognition issues in those higher classes began to fade as Color Recognition became popular. They began to promote an end to the subsidies for higher education.

As the upper class Circles began to disagree, the leaders of the Revolution began to demand all citizens, including Circles and Women, to present themselves for painting. Women were to have their front section painted red with their backs painted green. Circles were to be colored in the same...
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