Mizora: A Prophecy

Introduction

Mizora: A Prophecy by Mary E. Bradley Lane is a true and faithful account of her journey to the centre of the Earth, with a thorough description of the country and its inhabitants, their customs, manners and government. Noblewoman and a militant suffragette Mizoram falls in Siberian exile, where he met with the women's community, which has three thousand years and there is no man. Due to the success of genetic engineering, all members of the community are long-legged blue-eyed blonde with a wasp waist (Bradley, 2000, 22-27). The system of education and the nature of work exclude the possibility of making girls and women in the "working cattle". Delighted by what he saw Mizoram waiting with impatience the end of the links to hit the civilized world is a living example of a female utopia The selected passage for analysis is taken from chapter 4 where Vera converses with the Preceptors regarding the 'high state of culture arrived at by the Mizora people(Bradley, 2000, 22-27). The passage is significant to the novel because it addresses the social and economic issues of equal education in an ideal setting thus, suggesting free education as a solution to many of the social and economic problems.

Importance of the Passage

Theme

The major theme of this passage is to convey the message of the education system across the society where utmost attention is given to the training and education of the children. This passage selected depicts the education and free will as a solution to many social and economic problems. ), a groundbreaking woman's world created by the Ohio schoolteacher Mary E. Bradley Lane. Serialized anonymously over three months in the Cincinnati Commercial, it anticipates Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915) by picturing a realm of blonde beauties elevated to an intellectual oasis by open-minded teaching (Bradley, 2000, 22-27). Through a hole in the Earth that trails inward from the North Pole, the explorer Vera Zarovitch, a Russian noblewoman educated in Paris, discovers an enlightened society that ignores men. Mizora is a nonviolent municipality that concentrates community efforts on cooperation and scientific research. Children are their mother's delight; illness and physical deformity no longer mar growth and happiness because science ensures the sound health of all. Neither poverty nor social barriers prevent any from cultivating their mind through the arts (Bradley, 2000, 22-27).

Rhetorical Technique

To picture the citizen and the education system of this new civilization, ...