... job actually obiliges them to protect. The masses are merely a "large number of supernumeracies, who are to be occassionally addressed, and relied upon for shouts and choruses, as on a theatrical stage" (BH 191). Social unrest lies latent in Bleak House and there are moments when it certainly appears viable the "day is not far off" when the lower orders will take ... that surrounds them, ultimately because they can not understand it. This world is made up of words, and as Jo "stands staring up at the great letters on the whitewashed front" of General George's quarters, they sadly "have ...

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