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Romanticism in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath: Horizontalness,
The concept of verticality recognizes that inequalities between people necessitate a certain amount of conformity in the service of hierarchy, whereas horizontalness recognizes that individuals should be free from the influence of others.
The essence of horizontalness is equality, although HC, who sees the self as part of a group, is more committed to the organisation than HI, who believes in an autonomous self.