In 'The Government Inspector', Nikolai Gogol '...resolved to gather into one heap all that was bad in Russia.' Playing the Mayor, illustrate how you would communicate this to an audience.

Russia in the 19th Century was a country full of corruption, and battles between social classes. As state secondary school and university education became more readily available, the number of educated gentry grew. As there were more people who fitted into the elitist category, rather than being serfs, the upper classes had more need to define them as truly elite, and so great competition between seemingly equal people occurred. The class system in Russia then …

…to the Judge. He would stand on his tiptoes to gain extra height and physical presence over the Judge, before saying, "But you...I know all about you: when you start talking about the creation of the world it's enough to make one's hair stand on end." He would then cock his head in a confrontational way, before surveying the others' reactions. He would then walk away slowly and sit down playing with his cuffs.