The Shallow Society of England as Seen by Dickens - Cartier Thamzi
Date Submitted: 01/14/2001 03:35:50
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 4 pages (1029 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 4 pages (1029 words)
"Money is what makes the world go round". Great Expectations is a model novel that reveals this statement. Throughout the novel Dickens' demonstrates his views on social class through the ideas of that the occupation you hold, along with the income that you receive is the threshold for defining classes. Dickens' suggests this by showing class mobility, the constant arrogance and other defining tools displayed by the "upper" classes, as well as the fact that …
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…in the novel to depict the way social classes behaved in England. This added a realistic approach to the novel allowing the reader to emotionally empathize with the book for its factual depiction of social classes unfortunately reveals the truth about the shallow, closed-minded society that the world operates in today. Dickens' felt the England was petty and unable to see past the blinding factor of money, which made England a harsh and cruel place.
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