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Great Expectations By Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens' novel «Great expectations" was first published in 1860.

It is one of the most popular works of the writer. Charles Charles Dickens was a social reformer. Like many of his novels,  Great Expectations  explores themes of social class, poverty, and crime.

The main protagonist of the novel is a seven-year-old boy Philip Pirrip (Pip). He lives in the house of his elder sister and her husband, the blacksmith, Joe Gargery .

The sister treats the boy severely and permanently insults him. Suffering solitude, Peep often visits their parent’s grave.

One day, on Christmas Eve, he meets a fugitive convict. Being frightened Peep brings him some food and water from the house.

One day Pip meets Miss Havisham and Estella, her adopted daughter. Peep finds Estella very beautiful and fells in love with her. Before meeting her, he loved the craft of a blacksmith, but after he gets acquainted Estella he became ashamed of this occupation, as it seems rude and unpleasant to him

Pip's life changes when a lawyer from London, Jaggers, comes to his house. He reports that his client, who wished to remain anonymous, wants to provide Pip with a “brilliant future,” for which he must go to London and become a gentleman. The lawyer becomes Pip’s guardian.

Pip settles quickly in London. He rented an apartment with a friend, Herbert Poket. He lives in a great way, making debts and wasting money.

Soon Pip finds out who his patron was: to his great surprise, it turned out to be the convict Abel Megwich, whom he once helped stealing food from home. This hurts Pip, because Abel was unpleasant to him, and Pip was forced to part with the hope of being with Estella.

Depressed Peep last visits Miss Havisham. After that, he decided to leave the country. Years later, Pip stays a bachelor, and after eleven years he accidentally meets the widow Estella in the ruins of Miss Havisham’s house. After a short conversation, they left the gloomy ruins, holding hands...

In Dickens' Great Expectations we see Pip’s attempts to find his place in the upper society while he is unable to break up with his circle. As a result, he becomes a stranger in his old circle and doesn’t not enter the new one. At the same time he loses almost everything that was valuable for him. So Pip realizes the fact that simple and honest workers live descent and generous life, while representatives of the upper class spend their time in idleness and meaninglessness.

Dickens satirizes the aspirations of the Victorians' rising middle class toward acceptance by a shallow and frivolous aristocracy. So, while reading the book you definitely come to decision that social class has no connection to moral merit or deficiency.