With this building, the upper-class character of the block was established.

But then right-wing, upper-class fictional characters would have fun even if tentacled Martians were chasing them through sewage.

Julian Fellowes said that he thought that both programmes could be hits even though they are broadly based on the same formula of upper-class characters and servants.

Conversely, Lewis presents nearly every upper-class character in Claire Boltwood's world (including her railroad-mogul father) as being snobby elitists.

Although the upper-class characters disapprove of the alliance, nobody is more scandalised than George's father, who keeps reminding his son that he's "the scum of the earth."

But it's telling that the uncertainty of the doomed upper-class characters is what feels convincing, and unsettlingly familiar.

He could play good guys, bad guys, weaklings, strong guys, working-class characters, upper-class characters.

Shakespeare commonly wrote most of the speeches for his noble upper-class characters in verse, while the lower-class and comic characters spoke in prose.

Using wolves, snow, supernatural elements and eccentric upper-class characters to project an exotic image of 1820s Värmland, the novel can be compared to magic realism.

Morning Star is set in 1977 and features a large cast of upper-class characters.