on to be the one that does it. Mr. carson thoguh does not care about anything else but himself and since he is part of the high class he doesn't care what happens as long as the killer is part to justice.
             I have not read Wuthering Heights for awhile but maybe you could tak about the correlation between the main owmen in th estory and how they struggle to get by but are able to become individuals. Hope this helps.
             The upper class citizens are the ones born with a title (Barnacles, Stilstockings Dickens) the middle class get their money through business investment and the working class are the one in french paintings, who want something to do on sunday their only day off. Gaskell's novel Mary Barton was frowned upon by the Stilstockings and Barnacles because they were not portrayed like civilized or as together as they want to lie about being (See Thackeray's gentleman description). The pity is for Barton in the novel, from Gaskell a gentlewoman.
             I got this 'in a nut shell' from http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx's=1&Movie=13899 (which i found through google)
             there's also alot of other analysis and theme stuff on that site. hope it helps.
             Although Mary Fitz Allen loves Arthur Barton, a soldier, her socially ambitious mother promises her to the middle-aged Lord Lester. After Barton knocks out barrister Robert Jardon, who, desiring Mary, insults her, Barton, convinced that Jardon has died, leaves England after notifying Mary that he will send for her. After Mrs. Fitz Allen becomes aware of Mary's pregnancy, she takes her to the country and then bribes a servant to take care of Mary's child, telling Mary that the baby has died. Mrs. Fitz Allen then hides Barton's letters, and Mary consents to marry Lester. Meanwhile, Barton, knocked overboard by a sailor, drowns. Fifteen years later, Mary truly loves Lester. After Jardon, who was blinded in one eye by Barton and is now Lester's lawyer, discovers letters from Mar...