Dickens gives David an experience in all of the difficulties of the 1800's class system. ... His experience with this predicament actually derived from his school days, where he was caned. ... Traddles is used as an example of both child abuse and social class injustice. Many times in the book people of lower classes are judged and looked down upon. ... Murdstone also possesses this prejudice towards lower classes...
One theme of the book is about the realisation of class and how Pip became ashamed of his background and strove, through a mysterious donation of income, to improve himself. ... The realisation that Pip came to from his experiences were that the status and class he had strived for and admired were in fact full of corruption. ... "As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones". ...
Such work sharpened his ear for conversational speech and class mannerisms, which he called on later to portray characters with remarkable realism. ... They also set Dickens's reputation as a "flaneur," the French-derived literary term for "connoisseur of street life." ...
In Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, the reader is taken through the journey of a little boy as he pursuits his dream and great expectations beyond his common self. Pip's, the protagonist, dream of becoming a gentleman is realized upon his meeting of Estella, the love of his life. Pip changes ...
