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

Magwitch, who only had success while living outside England, is a representative of the lower class. He apparently began his life of crime from a childhood; eventual success in life, only comes in a penal colony because he was given the opportunity to succeed. It is ironic that Magwitch, an outcast of English society, who was courted by society, was in fact the benefactor of Pip. When Magwitch goes to visit Pip, Pip is ashame of him because he does not want to be associated with a member of the lower class. Pip refers to Magwitch as his "dreaded visitor" and was embarrassed of his "uncouth manners and appearance". However, through Magwitch's financial success, Dickens shows that it was not his family social status that hindered his success, rather the unjust class system (what does this has to do with being a benefactor for pip.)

ifies the idle rich as she sat in her mansion, while still wearing her wedding dress that had began to rot. Dickens writes, "In her once-white dress, all yellow and withered...everything around in a state to crumble under a touch." She wants to create doomed relationship by manipulating Estella to break Pip's heart because she was left at the altar. Her behavior is in part because a wealthy father who "denied her nothing (what are you trying to say? Please clarify)." Miss Havisham never had to work because she was financially secure. She entertains herself by playing sadistic games with Pip and Estella. As she explains to Pip, "I sometimes have sick fancies." Dickens uses the irrationality of Miss. Havisham to ridicule the upper class. Her upper class, l

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