... the landed aristocracy toward an insecure, expanding middle class of businessmen and professionals, impoverishing millions of once-rural laborers along the way. Strident, riotous campaigns to extend voting rights to males of the middle and working classes produced fears of armed insurrection. Coupled with the agitations for and against trade unions, women's equality, socialism, and the separation ... economic structure often teetered on the brink of open class warfare. In the national clamor for reform, every sector of the population fought for its privileges and feared for its rights. ...

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... illustrates that the people and the place are one and the same thing. However that Tom is fast asleep means that both appear far from human. They are giving grotesque animal like qualities. "Jo and his order" (BH 258) are in may wqys similar to the characters portrayed in A Tale of Two Cities. With the likes of La Vengeance, Jo becomes ... not be thankful that such lowly characters have not developed their point of view to the extent that they can recognised their ill treatment and their entitlement to basic human rights. The Westminster Review (1850) is fact cuttingly marvelled at "how...

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