(Author: Ana-Sofia Munoz) Class is an element of our lives that affects us regardless of whether we are fully aware of it. For some individuals, they are greatly impacted by the marginalization that results from socioeconomic class generalizations and discrimination and are forced to grapple with the negative effects every day; for others, they greatly benefit from the hierarchies that are perpetuated by our current class system. Death However, there is one inescapable process that claims all living things at one time or another: death. Death is known as the great equalizer, and it does not consider the circumstances of those it takes—including socioeconomic class. Edgar Allan Poe’s Masque of…
