![]() ![]() The figure of how long he had been asleep is very significant – if you consider the number of years, months and days in numbers: 113311, Julian has become a numerical palindrome* because of the number of years he has slept. He also suffers with insomnia, the inability to sleep for a whole night, or unable to get to sleep and / or stay asleep, which is something he seeks help for from his doctor, Dr Pilsbury, who can always help him to sleep deeply.Īt the end of chapter two he falls into a deep sleep that lasts for one-hundred-and-thirteen years, three months and eleven days, and wakes up in 2000. ![]() Julian sets the scene of his life in 1887 in the first two chapters: he explains the class system, the differences between the rich and the poor, politics, and tells the reader about his engagement to Edith Bartlett, who came from an aristocratic background. Bellamy has built a communist society without money, only credit, without political parties, just citizens, and with a technological advantage that they did not have in 1887, where the main character and speaker, Julian West came from. ![]() Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward is a short novel about the nineteenth century’s optimistic view of the twenty-first century. ![]()
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