Margaret cavendish blazing world summary

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The Blazing Worldbegins with the kidnapping of a Lady by a merchant who believes he can marry her. The gods punish the merchant by blowing his ship north, where he and his crew freeze to death.

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The Lady survives, but finds herself in another world, "the Blazing World." The creatures of the Blazing World are human-animal hybrids, and upon discovering the Lady, they take her to their Emperor.

The Emperor marries the Lady, making her Empress of the Blazing World.

As Empress, she decides to learn everything she can about this unfamiliar world. She learns that each hybrid species lives independently and follows their own rules, but that every species coexists together peacefully. Each species has a scientific and social role, including chemists, astronomers, and philosophers.

The Empress requests a scribe to write down her findings, and the spirits of the Blazing World send her a woman writer, the D