# Class and Social Hierarchy in He Who Gets Slapped

> Theme guide for He Who Gets Slapped by Leonid Andreyev.

The circus serves as a microcosm of society, where aristocrats like Mancini and the Baron manipulate and look down upon performers, revealing the rigid class structures and the commodification of human dignity.

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