Class and Status Examples

Misfits

Misfits is about a group of young adults who have committed a crime and have to pay the community back by doing community service. When they are doing this community service a storm occurs and causes them to gain super powers and then in their everyday service they have to solve problems they encounter. They all are lower class as they are associated with the term "Chav" as they have been anti-social and when they are in their own clothes mostly wearing tracksuits. Also they sound very common and swear a lot. Throughout the series they get into bad situations and being anti-social and we even see them break the law a lot throughout the series. The way the characters act is typical of a youth offenders they don't want to be there and give their boss a hard time constantly.

Downtown Abbey
In this series the main characters are mainly upper class and we can tell this in many ways. Like the way they speak very formally to each other and not abbreviating their words. Also they way they dress is another way of telling us their class. As they dress in suits and dresses which middle class would usually wear to a suit to special events, these characters wear them all the time and the type of fabric used too is very expensive to buy. Next is the location of their house as it has a lot of acres surrounding the house and also the house itself is really big and houses of that size are usually owned by upper class people and upper class usually are quite well off. Also the way the house works is very upper class as they have people that work for them in the house and they are needed every living moment the upper class are awake.