1. Lower Class, Working Class and Social Class
The idea of rebellion towards government institutionalization, also gives the middle class a voice and the opportunity to decide their own fate, making them less cartoonish and more humane. It gives the reader both the good and the bad of the human condition- the good being Higgins who provides sympathetic leadership and concern for his sick daughter, and the bad being the desperate violence and savagery of the rioters (specifically in Chapter 22 when one of the rioters hit Margaret with a stone while protesting in front of Thornton's home). ... The fact that no other character but Oli...
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