Unto This Last · Character
The Servant
A generic servant figure used in moral and economic illustrations.
minor
Also known as the servant, himself
First appearance: I: The Roots of Honour
The Servant's tie to The Master is one of the pressures that moves Unto This Last—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.
Used in the analogy of the master and servant relationship in the context of strikes.
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With The Master (professional): The Master commands and the Servant obeys, forming a hierarchical employer-servant dynamic central to the book's critique of labor relations. With Unknown Narrator (social): The Servant…
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Relationship types
- Professional
- Social
Character groups
- Literary economic archetypes
- Protagonist
- Economic and mythological critics
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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- Breaking point
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- The Master
professional · ambivalent
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- Unknown Narrator
social · positive
- John Stuart Mill
social · negative
Relationship notes
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