Sophie's World 4: Things Fall Apart

So, the question of what kind of world Sophie lives in was promptly answered. She lives in a book. Within a book¹.

Oops, spoiler alert, I guess².

Sadly, the next couple of chapters after Sophie learns her life is a lie is nothing but recappings of the previous chapter (as Hilde reads through Sophie's World, up to the point we just ended at), and some insight into Hilde's life (she lives at the Bjerkely house, which is exactly like the painting called Bjerkely in the Major's Cabin; it is her birthday, and Sophie's life is her present; her dad can't be bothered to mail her postcards, so he works them into giant stories that he mails her; she quickly jumps to conclusions³).

After reading about Hilde reading about Sophie, we get the point that just as Berkeley said we're all part of God's mind, Sophie's World is all part of Albert's mind. I find this amusing, as that means that Sophie's World (by Albert) is a part of Hilde's World, which is what we're reading, and referring to as Sophie's World (by Gaarder). Let's pretend that raises the question of whether or not our world is the figment of some imagination⁴.


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1 This, sadly, means she is only at the City level¹.
2 Let's pretend my backspace key doesn't work. But really, I just can't be bothered to edit for spoiler-removal.
3 "My dad wrote a character I find interesting: this character must be real!"
4 Sophie's World seems like Inception and the Matrix. Layer upon layer of simulated reality.


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1 Or arguable, the Apartment-with-the-fake-carpet level, because she is realizing her world is a lie, and in the City, no one know what was what unless they knew from the beginning.