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The strained relationships, resentment and indignation between the classes in Great Expectations  

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Great expectations is a profound story. It contains the theme of love, desire, foolishness, the relationship between a family, and so on. And the story also strongly represents social context and social force of Dickens's time. Dickens provides us with scathing insight into the social standard of the time. I'd like to consider English social class of Great expectations. The class system in England began with the introduction of feudalism which followed the Norman Conquest of 1066, and it has been the social standard for hundreds of years. The class system consists of an upper, middle and lower class. These classes and the differences between them are evident in the plot and interaction of the characters in Great Expectations. Dickens depicts severely the English class system, where the upper class is omnipotent, the middle class consists of those envious of the upper class, and the hard workers of the lower...

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