Great Expectations
...asses and the differences between them are evident in the interaction of the characters and in the plot of novel. Dickens paints a very poor sketch of this system, where the upper class is powerful, the middle class is jealous of the upper class, and the hard working lower class is unable to live comfortably because they were born poor. An example of these injustices can be seen in the characters of Miss. Havisham, Mrs. Pocket, Mrs. Joe, Pumblechook and Magwitch. These characters embody many of the traits, which Dickens found to be evident in the various classes. The picture Pip paints of Miss. Havisham is that of a lazy and selfish rich oddball woman, who sat in her dark and dusty home and who is obsessed with her failed marriage. Pondering over the past, Miss. Havisham person.From the time he met Estella and Miss Havisham, Pip tried to change himself to fit a mold that he thought they desired. He be...