Sentence examples for escape the class from inspiring English sources

To Williams, Orwell was destined to fail — because you can't escape the class you're born into.

"Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

Postwar Britons might have imagined that they had escaped the class-bound rigidity portrayed in popular dramas such as "Downton Abbey".

In the same way, people are always depicted as trying to "escape" the working class, when really they are just trying to escape poverty and lack of opportunity.

But several recent studies have shown that in America today it is harder to escape the social class of your birth than it is in Europe.

Like my father's, my visits home were brief; I was using my education the way I was supposed to, to escape the working class that my ambitious mother had found herself trapped in.

It is clear to both of them (and to their father too) that only Malcolm will have the chance to escape the working-class poverty they were born into, although neither wants to dig too deeply into the truth of their lives.

"Rugby league needs to escape the working-class bubble it has lived and blossomed in.

It was at sea, aboard the Wild Rose, that Golding could escape the demons of class, inferiority and what we might now call post-traumatic stress that haunted him all his life.

Though it is clear where Cooper's sympathies lie, she does not preach revolution but shows how difficult it was in interwar Britain to escape the expectations of class and upbringing.

And we were escaping the middle class".