Flatland

Flatland is a satirical novel written by Edwin Abott under the psuedoname "A Square". Since it was written in 1884 it's no surprise the book is extremely old-fashioned and offensive. In this book Flatland is a place where the citizens are all shapes and they have a hierarchy based on this, with circles being the highest and women or 'lines' are not even considered worthwhile. Here in Flatand A Square, someone in the middle rank of the hierarchy, has been shown the truth of multiple dimensions by A Sphere, a spherical solid from Spaceland. With this knowledge, A Square decides to enlighten the people of Flatland but once he finally speaks the truth he is arrested and no one believed him. So he spends the rest of his life in prison writing down the truth in futile hope some shape will read and understand the error of his ways.

Flatland juggles many themes and one of them is political oppression. The government in Flatland (the circles) was obviously aware of the existence of Spaceland, something that the citizens of Flatland don't know. They used this intellectual advantage for their own personal gain by stating that if anyone spoke of this they would be arrested, keeping them in power. In other words Knowledge = Power, another example of that is how with each level of dimensions there comes with it a ertain amount of knowledge which equals more power over others.