Pox Party - Are the Mad Doctors Really the Mad One?

When I started reading the book, I thought that the lords(lead by 03-01) conducting the experiments on Octavian were the mad doctors, and therefore, the "bad people/antagonist." However, after reading the new section, it started to sound as if the lords were the good people/protagonist despite the fact that they are "mad doctors."From the way the lords and teachers treated Octavian and his mother, it was clear that they never treated their subjects poorly, but the introduction of Mr. Sharpe made it more clear. Over the course of the storyline so far, Octavian went from a cherished guinea pig prince in silk to abused personal servant of Mr. Sharpe. He used to be ignorant of his skin color and its meanings and implications, but because of his new standing and treatment in the house enforced by Mr. Sharpe, Octavian started to consider himself more as a Black slave of equal standing as other servants, such as Bono, rather than an important prince.
This was an interesting twist that was not present in the previous texts we have discussed so far in class. In other texts, such as Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde, the mad doctors were the lone wolves of the society that caused harm to other characters. In contrast  in Pox Party, it was the new comer and some one who sounds more like a financial advisor than a mad doctor that is depicted as the harm-inflicting antagonist. Another interesting aspect of this setting is that Mr. Sharpe is not at all going against the society, but instead, enforcing the values of the then-society on the Gitney's College environment, as seen when he declares that learning Greek and Latin philosophy is a waste of time for someone like Octavian, so instead Octavian is forced to do physical work of the servants, such as combing Mr. Sharpe's hair and delivering messages. Changing the College from exclusively secluded society to a more society-adoptable community caused the main characters to suffer, both physically and emotionally. Thus suggesting that the "mad doctors" introduced at the beginning of the book might have been after all, had a better, and healthier environment and morals than rest of the society, raising a question of who actually is the "mad one" and the accuracy of labeling someone "mad" solely based on the comparison of that person with the main stream society.