The short passage from the play Nothing Sacred by George F. Walker depicts a corrupt and misleading society in the reader’s mind. To begin with, serfdom creates a disjunction in the society where ‘serfs’ are considered a low class. For example, Arkady says, “This is a form of institutional punishment. One man has been given power by the state… the institution of serfdom,” (Walker). The Bailiff is allowed to enforce the law regardless of his violent personality, over a peasant such as Gregor due to his low-class status. It is clear that the society abides with the wrong people standing in power. Therefore, the lower social class of this feudal society have to live in terror from an individual with higher authority such as the Bailiff because
