Social Class In 'Escar For Measure'

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In Measure For Measure the social class is important. Social class is important because the duke chose Lord Angelo instead of Escalus to take care of Vienna while the duke was away due to the fact that Lord Angelo has the royal blood that the duke has, “My very worthy cousin…” (V, 5.1, 1) meaning both Angelo and the duke are somehow related through royal blood. There is a line of wealthy and poor, the duke, Lord Angelo and such are the wealthy because the class all are in which get paid a significant amount of money. The middle class are people who have a job that paid a decent amount, provost is in the middle class but gets promoted, “... we shall employ thee in a worthier place.” (V, 5.1. 526) meaning that provost was getting paid little