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Society and Class
Wealth and social status rule the school in London in 1895. Actually, money calls the shots today too, so no big change there. But in A Great and Terrible Beauty, if you don't have a pile of cash, then you'd better pack your kneepads to start scrubbing some floors or scooping horse doo. Since the main characters are all rich girls gone wild, we don't see life from the perspective of anyone else. Well except for Ann, but she leads a rich girl's life vicariously, so she doesn't count. (Or does she? Feel free to disagree. We love a good argument.)
This book argues that society and class are illusions, just like magic.
The members of the new Order secretly like the rules set up for them in society—if they didn't, they wouldn't go along with them so readily when they're in public.
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